Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister, has indicated that the four stands at the B. K. Adama Multipurpose Youth Resource Centre in Wa will be named after notable personalities in the country.
“Even before the project is completed, His Excellency the President has decided to name it after one of the distinguished statesmen of the country, the late Alhaji B. K. Adama, so it is now known as the Alhaji B. K. Adama Multipurpose Youth Resource Centre.
“I am going to make a proposal to the President; we have to name the stands as well. So we will identify some distinguished personalities, not only from the Upper West Region, but Ghana so that we will name the four stands after those distinguished personalities”, he said.
Dr. Salih was addressing the media on Monday when a team from the National Youth Authority (NYA) lead by Mr. Pius Enam Hadzide, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NYA, visited the region to assess the progress of work on the facility.
The Regional Minister stated that due to the potential enormous benefits of the facility to the development of the skills of the youth in the region, there had been so much pressure on him for the project to be completed on time.
He, however, commended the contractor in charge of the facility and the NYA for the progress of work on the project so far but said if they pull their efforts together, the facility would be completed in no time and be put to use.
Dr. Salih had early on recommended that the project should be commissioned in August during a visit of the President, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to the region once the phase one had been completed while work on the phase two would continue.
“I indicated that Mr President has told me that next month August, he will be visiting the Upper West Region and it will be a great pleasure to me if the project is in a state where the president can come and commission it but there that I was told about the additional facilities they intend to incorporate into the phase one”, he said.
But Mr Hadzide said that move would give room for spurious, unsolicited criticism from a section of the public that an uncompleted project had been commissioned.
Mr Emmanuel Fobi Asabere, of the G. A. Takyi Consult, the consultant of the project, indicated that the construction of the facility would also engage young women to do some art works on the finishing using clay to make it outstanding.
That, he said, would also make the women to benefit financially from the project.