ALL is set for the hosting of a forum for the flag bearers of the various political parties by the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale today.
The forum is the first in a series to be held by the UDS to provide a platform for the presidential aspirants to declare their respective visions for the accelerated development of northern Ghana and the strategies they would adopt to attain those visions.
The first to address the forum on the Tamale Campus of the university is the presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The forum is being held on the theme, “Focus on Accelerated Development of Northern Ghana, with particular Emphasis on Education: The role of the UDS”.
According to the acting Vice-Chancellor of the UDS, Professor Kaku Sagary Nokoe, the initiative was “borne out of the university’s shared belief that education is the key to the emancipation of the people of Northern Ghana from the chain of want to life sustenance, want of self esteem and want of freedom from servitude”.
He also said the programme was the result of the university’s observation that the north, with its huge land capacity, was the answer to massive agricultural production in the country.
“The platform will also enable all the flag bearers to draw clear lines between various development-oriented sectors of the economy,” Professor Nokoe indicated.
He made it clear that the university would, in due course, hold similar fora for other aspirants on any of its campuses when it suited the parties.
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