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MULTIPURPOSE DAM TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON WHITE VOLTA      24thAugust, 2012 BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Upper East Regional, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo has disclosed that the Government of Ghana has put in place arrangements for the construction of a multi-purpose dam on the White Volta at Pwalugu in the Upper East region. On the estimated completion of the project in 2019, the dam would generate electricity and irrigate over 100,000 hectares of land to the benefit of people in the Upper East and Northern Regions of the country.  Hon. Mark Owen Woyongo - Upper East Regional Minister making a contribution at the meeting Mr. Woyongo who gave the disclosure at the second general assembly meeting of the White Volta basin Transboundary Committee on Water Resources Management [WVBTCWRM] at Tenkodogo in Burkina Faso, noted that the timely execution of the multipurpose dam project will also curtail the periodic devastation caused to his region as a result of the spillage of the

INTERNAL AUDITORS CAUTIONED AGAINST CONDONNING FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMNET BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo has made a passionate appeal to internal auditors of the Ghana Education Service [GES] to eschew the tendency of condoning and conniving with management to dissipate public funds stressing that as “ Internal Auditors, you must always ensure that government has value for money”. The Regional Minister made the appeal in a keynote address at the 8 th Annual Conference of the internal auditors association of the GES held at Bolgatanga in the Upper East region of Ghana. He further admonished the internal auditors to promote the ethical culture of the auditing profession by ensuring integrity, objectivity, confidentiality and showing competence in the execution of their mandate as auditors. He noted that integrity establishes trust which forms the basis for reliance on the judgment of auditors. Since the form