Assembly Member For Goriyiri Electoral Area Outlines Pressing Challenges of His Electoral Area

 

The Assembly member for Goriyiri Electoral Area in Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region, Hon. Nestor Mwinterebo enumerates some pressing challenges that bedevil his electoral area. 

In a statement dated 13th March 2023, addressed to his electorates, the young assembly member outlines the challenges as fellows;

1. Fencing Vogonni community forest reserve; It is a community based forest with different kinds of trees including palm nut trees where community members go to harvest for sale, for domestic use like palm nut soup and process nuts into oil locally. The community has been transplanting younger trees and creating fire belt annually to protect the said virgin forest, but because it is not fenced and protected, Fulani herdsmen's activities within the area have been destroying the good intentions of the community and if fenced will have direct impact to the community members both socially and economically since the place stands the chance of becoming a tourist site if well protected.

2. Renovation of Kandomwine dry season vegetable garden Water system. The said garden was constructed for the community women by an NGO in 2012 and as it is, many of the pipes and the big poly thank for water reserve is totally depreciated causing constant leakages. The women are seriously contributing towards its renovation and support from sons and daughters of the Community towards it cannot be underestimated. As it stands, the said garden is the highest producer of chemical free vegetables in the Nadowli/Kaleo district and beyond. It has direct impact to about 80% of the community members because when you make an impact in a woman, you have impacted the whole world but when you equip a man, you have equipped an individual.

3. CHPS compound for the electoral area. Over 1,500 people in the electoral area can not boast of a decent place for health care delivery as a result of the absence of a health facility in the area.

4. Goriyiri community water crisis. Goriyiri is one of the oldest communities in Nadowli and the first community to have been blessed with a school by the Roman Catholics in 1956. Goriyiri school is attended by children from four communities in the electoral area namely Kandomwine, Vogonni, Da-uri and Goriyiri itself with population of about 500 and above but still cannot boast of portable drinking water. Many of the pupils battle to drink from river when thirsty. The community members themselves have to travel far to the nearby communities for decent water. It will be life transforming if we could get a hand pump or mechanized borehole to curb this challenge as many of the school children do battle with water borne diseases for drinking contaminated water from river bodies. 

5. A culvert for the Kandomwine washed off road.

"Making this known to sons and daughters of the electoral area in the diaspora I plead with you to engage stakeholders out there for a possible solution to any of these as it will be impactful to our own people" part of his statement reads.

Source: Hon. Nestor Mwinterebo