Drobohene advocates cashew board
The people of Drobob in the Brong Ahafo Region, the region’s leading cashew farming community, have called on the government to set up a cashew nut management board to regulate the activities of cashew farmers.
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Cashew farmers have no institution to champion their cause, unlike cocoa farmers whose activities are under the management of COCOBOD.
The Chief of Drobo in the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Bofo Bene IV, who made the call, contended that if there were a body specifically charged to see to the affairs of cashew farmers, their grievances would easily be addressed.
According to him, a number of farmers in the country are now engaged in the production of the crop and the number keeps increasing on a daily basis so it was high time the government did something before issues got out of hand.
Body charged
Nana Bene made the call when the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, paid a working visit to Drobo at the weekend. She donated assorted medical equipment and supplies to the hospital in the town.
Some of the items donated were incubators, ultra-scan machines, hospital beds, theatre beds, mattresses, refrigerators, furniture, wheelchairs, blood pressure devices, bedside tables, syringes, forceps, catheters and a blood sample machine.
Tolerance
Nana Bene, who is also the Vice-President of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, advised Ghanaians to desist from insulting the President, his ministers or other high-profile people in the society when they phoned in to radio programmes.
He said Ghana was a peaceful country and as the general election would take place in November, there was the need for people to be tolerant.
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The First Lady, who is also the Sompahemaa of the Nkoranza Traditional Area under the stool name Nana Akosua Frema Ampomah Sika I, said the Lordina Foundation had taken the issue of health care very seriously and had been working to promote women and children’s health.
She said the items donated were aimed at complementing the efforts of the government to realise its vision of making quality health care accessible for all citizens.
Stakeholders
Mrs Mahama said it was the duty of all stakeholders to support the health personnel to promote the delivery of quality care in the hospital.
While she was happy with supporting the hospital to promote quality of healthcare delivery in the area, she expressed worry over the spate of child marriages in the country.
“As a mother, the practice breaks my heart, but more importantly it also negatively affects the future of thousands of young girls across Ghana and beyond. According to data released by UNICEF, which reveals a worrying trend as each day, 41,000 girls get married globally; every minute, 28 girls get married and every two seconds a girl gets married,” she said.
She, therefore, called on parents, and traditional and religious leaders to support the ‘End Child Marriage’ campaign, adding that “we must ensure that girls are allowed to stay in school and realise their full potential and not be forced into child marriages before the age of maturity”.