Journalistic Works - News Articles, Features And More of P. ATOGEWE WEDAM

The Upper East Region’s regional rural water coverage as of the end of 2023, stood at 63.96 percent of communities served and 36.04 percent of communities under-served. This revelation came to light at the 25 th Anniversary celebrations of the Community Water Sanitation Agency [CWSA] held in Chiana, a community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region. The celebrations were themed “25 Years of Sustaining WASH Services: Transforming Rural and Small Towns Water Services Delivery Towards National Development”. The CWSA was established in 1998 following the launch of the National Community Water and Sanitation Policy [NCWSP] in 1994, charged with the mandate to facilitate the provision of safe drinking water and related sanitation services to Ghanaian Rural Communities and Small Towns. Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu in his keynote address at the ceremony noted that “access to safe water and sanitation is the most basic human right and necessit...

The Social Welfare and Community Development [SW&CD] District Directorate in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region this Thursday morning, disbursed a little over 75,000 Ghana Cedis to some 42 beneficiaries selected from across the district. A Section Of The Beneficiaries   The monies were drawn from the Disability Fund, a component of Ghana’s District Assemblies’ Common Fund, which has been set aside solely to address issues relating to disability and other concerns of persons living with disabilities [PWDs]. The Disability Fund began on an initial two percent [2%] proportion of the Common Fund and later got raised to three percent [3%] resulting from relentless advocacy efforts by PWDs and some like-minded civil society organisations. In her opening remarks at the brief disbursement ceremony held at the premises of the Assembly, District Director of the SW & CD, Madam Victoria Asuliwono disclosed that the beneficiaries numbered 42 in total; comprisin...

A day’s training workshop for the roll out of a pending nation-wide public education and sensitization campaign on the Single Window Citizens Engagement Service [SWCES], has taken place in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, this Thursday, February 15, 2024. The training workshop was organized by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection [MoGCSP] in collaboration with the Information Services Department [ISD]. Group Picture; Participants & Trainers   Some eight Regional Information Officers and their respective metropolitan, municipal as well as district information officers, were the main participants in the training as these officers are the professionals clothed with the requisite skills and ground experience to execute the public education and sensitization campaign on the SWCES in the coming weeks. The said ISD officers were drawn from the Upper East, the Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions. The rest came from the Northern Region, Upper West, Savannah and Nor...

The new and reconstituted Kassena-Nankana West Assembly was successfully inaugurated on Monday 12 th February, 2024 but failed to elect a Presiding Member [PM] the same day even after two attempts. This same fate faced the Fourth Assembly; the term of the immediate-past Assembly Members until they eventually got one elected in the dying days of the previous Assembly.  The Hon. DCE Addressing The House Hon. Gerard Ataogye, the District Chief Executive [DCE] had prior to the PM nominations and elections made a passionate appeal to the House to eschew divisive tendencies as well as entrenched political stance and to rather be minded by the needs of their various communities and people, they each represent in the House. “Therefore, the various communities must hold us all responsible and you must thus live up to the task ahead to the expectation of the people who voted you into office and to also appreciate the fact that, they are truly participating in decision making process and g...