Bawku West Assembly to develop tourism

GNA – The District Chief Executive (DCE) for

Bawku West, Mr Anaba Adam Imoro, has said Bawku West District had

a lot of tourism potentials that could be developed to serve as additional

revenue source for the district.
    Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after touring some communities

in the district, he said the area had a slave camp where slaves from the

area, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali were camped before they were

transported to the coast.
    He said some of the slaves were also camped in hallow baobab trees

and other structures that were still existing.
   Most of the items used in tying the slaves, Mr Imoro said,   were also

left over at the slave camp, adding that there were still a lot of wild animals

like, elephants, lions, chimpanzees, antelopes, monkeys among others in

the area.
    He said the Ghana Burkina Faso border in the area could be used as a

tourism point and that the assembly was planning to partner with the

communities to develop more tourism potentials in the area.

   Mr. Imoro appealed to other stakeholders in the tourism sector

including Ministry of Tourism and non-governmental organizations to help

the district assembly to develop the tourism sector.
    On development projects in the district, he said the assembly would

only execute projects based on the availability of funds and would strictly

monitor all contractors to avoid shoddy work.
   Mr Imoro said the assembly would work on roads that are not in good

shape especially in areas that get cut off from the district capital and other

communities after heavy rainfall. 
   Mr. Moses Aduk-Pam, the Presiding Member for the Bawku West

Assembly, appealed to the people to pay their property rates to enable the

assembly to come out with more projects for them.
   He expressed dissatisfaction about cattle rustling in the area and said the

Assembly and the security agencies together with the traditional authorities

would form watch dog committees to tackle the issue.
  Mr. Aduk-Pam said the assembly had noticed that some of the youth in

the district were cultivating marijuana and warned that the assembly would

hand over anybody caught in the act to the police.
GNA