NORPRA bemoans infrastructure deficit in Northern Ghana

Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy, NORPRA, has called on Ghanaians particularly those from the Northern Savannah areas to vote for political parties whose policies and programmes in their manifestoes are directed towards the economic transformation of the area. 

A statement signed by the organisation's President Bismark Adongo Ayorogo expressed concern about the infrastructural deficit facing the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. 

Northern Ghana, it noted, continues to lag behind the rest of the country in terms of development, mainly due to lack of political will to aggressively embark on economic transformation of the area. 

It maintains that successive governments only pay lip service to pro-poor policies and programmes meant to accelerate socio-economic development of the northern half of the country. 

The statement said for Ghana to reduce the inequalities and end poverty and hunger in line with the SDGs, there is the need for all seeking power to commit to making substantial investment in the northern savannah ecological zone for vigorous agricultural-led transformation with strong linkage to industrialization. 

It said the South-North development gap of Ghana still exists and NORPRA and many civil society organizations wonder why competing political parties in this year’s elections are not making it a major campaign issue as was the case in 2008 and 2012.

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