Stakeholders at a forum have observed that the lack of a development plan for the Wa Municipality over the years has been the bane to the development of the Municipality.
They said due to the lack of a development plan development interventions in the municipality were haphazard and not guided by set targets and focus.
The stakeholders were speaking at a forum organised by the Senior Victory College, a private school in Wa, as part of its Cooperate Social Responsibility.
The discussions focused on the educational, health and general development of the Wa Municipality.
Mr Abdul-Rahaman Zakaria, the Senior Assistant Registrar of the Dr. Hilla Limann Technical University in Wa, said there was a need for a long-term, Medium-term and short-term development plan for the municipality to guide its development trajectory.
Mr Abdul-Rahaman Khalid, an Educationist, said the municipality should endeavor to identify the human capital potentials of the people in the municipality and encourage them to commit their services to the municipality.
Mr Mumuni Suleman, the Proprietor of the school questioned why the Upper West Region has the “fine brains” scattered across the country and abroad yet the region was wallowing in abject poverty.
The forum dubbed: "Senior Victory College Development Forum", brought together stakeholders who are natives of the Wa Municipality including academia, the clergy, social advocates and public sector workers to a table to discuss the development challenges of the municipality and to find antidotes to those challenges.