DR Archibald Yao Letsa, the speedy previous Volta Regional Minister, has described the hostile political environment of the Area as a factor of the previous.
He mentioned folks had been getting used to others expressing curiosity in different political beliefs and alliances.
Dr Letsa asserted that the political setting of the Area was significantly better whereas there was extra tolerance now and extra respect was accorded folks’s opinion which was enchancment.
Talking with the Ghana Information Company (GNA), Dr Letsa mentioned up to now, everybody within the Area anticipated indigenes to affiliate and have an interest within the ideologies and practices of the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said that previously, folks could possibly be pelted with stones, including that issues had taken a flip that when members of the New Patriotic Occasion (NPP) go to the Area, they grew to become amazed as a result of they had been acquired warmly with out assaults.
“The opposite day, I went somethe place I noticed folks in NPP t-shirts and there was no fuss. The hostility has died down fully,” Dr Letsa mentioned.
Dr Letsa emphasised that one of many biggest issues he was pleased about is that “no less than” he left the Area in a really peaceable state betrigger when he took workplace in 2017, the Alavanyo-Nkonya battle was “hell” for him.
He mentioned it was a longstanding battle that gave him sleepless nights including that, “you hardly go to mattress and sleep since you are at all times scared that you’ll be referred to as that some folks have been killed.”
The previous Volta Regional Minister additional defined that there needed to be a deliberate effort with the assist of Nationwide Safety, the president, the locals, the Peace Council and the opinion leaders from Nkonya and Alavanyo to carry the battle below management.
In furtherance, he outlined that the Trans-Volta Togoland successionist group’s disturbances was one other severe incident that was fairly embarrassing, and so they needed to work on it, including that the collaboration was nice from the Regional Home of Chiefs and the political events.
He famous: “Fortunately, they (successionist group) didn’t have assist among the many residents of the Volta Area. They didn’t have it in any respect. Most individuals weren’t interested in what they had been doing. So, they helped us to carry that one additionally below management.”
Dr Letsa once more said that the issue of the jap border was additionally vital in view of the terrorism, threats of terrorism within the sub-region as a result of there have been studies of terrorist exercise in Togo which compelled us to work very onerous to ensure the Area was secured and peaceable, and the safety businesses had been doing job.
Furthermore, he mentioned placing the Area on the map close to tourism was one other success with the assist of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Affiliation of Ghana Industries (AGI) and tourism ambassadors with the Volta Truthful initiative.
Dr Letsa additionally underlined that the 2021 version of the Volta Commerce and Funding Truthful was a successful run by the Volta Regional Coordinating Council.
“It’s the most important now we have experienced up to now. The folks didn’t even need us to shut,” he malestioned.
He emphasised that apart the truthful boosting the native economic system, it introduced quite a lot of visitors to the Region whereas vacationers go to the Area nearly each weekend to discover its magnificence.
The previous Minister mentioned throughout his period, the Area received again one of the best (Regional Coordination Council (RCC) within the nation for 4 consecutive occasions, spanning 2021 and 2024. —GNA
