The District chief Executive for Saboba Mr. George Kitingyaab Bingrini received a delegation from the World Bank Office in Accra and officials from the Ministry of Local Government Decentralization and Rural Development who came on a Monitoring Mission.
The purpose of the Mission was to ascertain and verify the choice of certain projects chosen for the Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesion (SOCO).
It will be recalled 48 MMDAs including Saboba District Assembly were selected to benefit from a World Bank facility of 150 million USD.
This Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesion Project will be implemented in six (6) regions in the Northern part of Ghana and Oti, thus Northern, North East, Upper East, Upper West, Savannah and Oti Regions.
The criteria used in selecting the beneficiary Regions and Districts included but not limited to:
- Climate vulnerability
- Exposure to Security risk
- Poverty incidence
- Unemployment rate
The team visited some project sites; amongst them included, Saboba Girls Model site at Hilltop, a Youth Resources/Skills Development Centre at the Community Centre, Saboba Market and Demon Small Town Water Project and an Upgraded Health Facility.
Officials on the Monitoring Mission are; Dr. Abdullah Darimani, World Bank Team Lead, Mrs. Lydia Sam, World Bank Procurement Specialist, Ms. Wilhelmina Gyamfi, Planning Officer Ministry of Local Government Decentralization and Rural Development, Mr. Reuben Ashong, Environmental Safeguards Specialist -SOCO, Mr. Kobina Forson, SOCO Zonal Coordinator and Ing. Abdallah Yussif, Project Engineer-SOCO.
With SOCO, our district will benefit from physical infrastructure while jobs are created for our teaming youth.