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Mr Benson Tongo Baba, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Poverty Reduction Strategy, says poverty is a threat to Ghana's country wide security, and called for instantaneous action to reduce it.
He stated poverty had no political coloration and was throughout all sectors of the country, and had turn out to be a world difficulty that compelled the United Nations (UN) to set up a Commission, Co-chaired through President Akufo-Addo.
“Furthermore, the African Union additionally took a clue from the UN, and have set up Agenda 2063 of which our Vice President is additionally the Vice Chair of that group. It potential that poverty is a very endemic issue.”
The Chairman stated this when he led contributors of the Committee to call on Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister to commence a two-day go to to accumulate facts from six chosen Districts in the Region.
Mr Baba, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Talensi Constituency in the Region, stated their go to and activities in the Region was once sponsored with the aid of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA).
“Poverty has grow to be a risk to our country wide safety and globally as well. So we are right here not to discover faults or do whatever that will have an effect on the Districts but to get the raw records that will assist us to put up a strong case to see how poverty can be eradicated in this country,” he said.
Mr Baba stated the Committee had oversight accountability to acquire correct statistics to assist authorities to resolve the problem. “If people are withholding information, it capacity they are now not supporting the government to resolve a problem.
“We experience that our work must help the government to remedy a problem, and when we discuss about government, we are no longer speaking about a political party. All democratic establishments are phase of the government,” he explained.
The MP cautioned that if the Committee used to be denied correct data backed by using the vital legislation to help the Ministry of Finance to source for money and solve poverty issues,“I don't think we will be advancing the route of democracy in this country.”
Mr Suleman Adamu Sanid, the Deputy Ranking Member of the Committee, said they have been on a fact-finding mission to the Talensi, Builsa South and North, Garu, Nabdam and Tempane Districts to get the already set up statistics on poverty validated.
He stated per the poverty statistics reachable to the Committee, the Upper East Region was once one of the Regions that wished attention, “We choose to companion the Region to see how we can get most of our troubles resolved, and get our humans out of poverty.”
The Regional Minister on his part, stated they had clever human resources, however expressed fear that tribalism and politics had been the essential troubles that hindered their development and improvement of the Region.
He stated even though the Region used to be additionally blessed with herbal resources, mainly gold deposits in some of the Districts, the poverty tiers in those Districts have been high, “Let's put the politics aside for now. Let's see what we can do due to the fact our people are suffering.”
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