USE REPORTAGE TO PROJECT VOLTA REGION (PAGE 22, JAN 23, 2010)

MEDIA practitioners in the Volta Region have been urged to project the image of the region in their reportage.
The Volta Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Amenowode, said this at an end-of-year get-together for media practitioners in the Volta Region in Ho.
“The general and larger interest of the region should take centre stage of whatever you do and not actions or inaction that are geared towards the personal, economic or political agenda of any particular individual,” he emphasised.
Mr Amenowode said the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) decided to organise the get-together for the media personnel to thank them for their commitment and contributions to the development of the region in the past year.
“I wish to also use this platform to earnestly call for a further renewal and strengthening of our relationship and collaboration for the year 2010. It is important for all of us to continuously appreciate the fact that we are in one boat and to remind ourselves about the need to further play our various roles efficiently and effectively, so that we would progress steadily as a people,” he said.
Touching on the achievements of the government in the first year, the regional minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for the Hohoe South, said the first year was dedicated to fiscal and monetary stabilisation.
Mr Amenowode expressed concern about workers’ lackadaisical attitude and urged them to see 2010 as action year during which the government would undertake many development projects in the country in general and the region in particular.
The regional minister mentioned some of the projects to be undertaken in the region as the Volta Region University, the construction of the eastern corridor road and the youth in agriculture programme.
He assured workers of the government’s commitment to promote their welfare and to ensure better remuneration for all public sector workers in the country through the implementation of the single spine salary structure this year.
Mr Amenowode, therefore, called for co-operation and support, adding, “Let us continue to use dialogue instead of confrontation to address whatever issues that may crop up during the implementation of the government’s policies.”
He expressed the VRCC’s gratitude to the media establishment for projecting the region during the past year and expressed the hope that they would do the same this year.