By Alex Baah Boadi
Adiembra New Town (WN/R), Feb.11, GNA – Mr Wilberforce Petty Brentum, the Western North Regional minister, has assumed office with a call on stakeholders, including Traditional authorities, Regional Co-ordinating staff and the general public for comprehensive collaboration to ensure accelerated development in the Region.
Mr Brentum lauded the assurance from the acting coordinating director to support him in his duties and asked staff of the Council to be professional in the discharge of their duties so as to implement the President’s agenda for the region.
“I am happy for the reception and the assurance that the coordinating director has given to help me achieve my vision for the region”.
The regional minister who said this in his maiden address to staff and management of the Western North Regional Co-ordinating Council cautioned against sabotaging government business.
Mr Brentum promised to form a team to tour the region to profile all mining activities in the region in order to roll out pragmatic steps to fight illegal mining and logging in the region.
He promised to work closely with the appropriate state institutions to identify challenges and how best to control and manage them.
Mr Bentum, however, expressed worry about the decline in cocoa production in the area and gave the assurance that the necessary measures would be put in place to curb the situation.
He advised cocoa farmers to venture into other businesses to supplement their income since cocoa farming was dwindling.
The regional minister commended chiefs in the region for their support during his vetting and appealed to them to continue to support him to bring the needed development to the region.
He was accompanied to his office by the regional executives of the NDC led by Mr Michael Aidoo, Regional chairman, some constituency executives and other party faithfuls.
GNA