Give SADA more publicity

Civil Society Organisations (CSO) operating in the north have entreated the management of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to embark on a more vigorous sensitisation campaign on its objectives and activities to ensure the successful execution of its programmes in beneficiary communities.

According to the members of the CSOs, the failure by the management of SADA to offer ready feedback on its activities to the public, coupled with the lack of transparency of its operations, has opened it up to various speculations, thus leaving its stakeholders in the dark.

“They would have to work very hard to demystify the negative perceptions people have about the operations of SADA, so that we do not lose out on the opportunities the intervention have availed to us to improve on the deplorable situation of our people,” Madam Agnes Gandaa of the ISODEC admonished.

Madam Gandaa who was expressing her concern at the launch of the CSO platform on SADA in Tamale further indicated that “up till now, majority of the people in the north do not know whether

SADA is living up to the strategies it is mandated to implement because they are not adequately informed about its activities.”

In his response, the Human Resource and Cooperate Affairs Director of SADA, Salifu Danse, who accepted the criticisms in good faith, entreated the people to be patient with the authority as it was a young organisation that was putting its operations in order.

Story by Zakaria Alhassan