Highlights of Sagnarigu development under Hajia Mariam Iddrisu

Story; Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Editor in Chief ||

2020 is the year of empowerment for all hence the Municipal Chief Executive Officer for Sagnarigu is encouraging her people to take up the opportunities that the government is giving out especially in education and agriculture.

The Sagnarigu municipal assembly has been blessed by the second lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia with an ultra-modern ICT lab facility that can house sixty people at a time. This the MCE has called on her people to use it judiciously.

60 seater computer Lab at Choggu Demonstration

Under her watch as the MCE, Hajia Mariam Iddrisu is working to improve education in her municipality. Currently, about fourteen basic school infrastructures are under construction. Six of these buildings have been completed with their ancillary while the rest are in various stages of construction.

The Sagnarigu Naa has also come in to help by donating land to the assemble while partners like ActionAid have also supported in putting up a girl’s schools in the municipality as well.

To complement these structures, 1500 mono and dual desks have been distributed to schools in the municipality. The MCE has also tasked circuit supervisors to monitor school for effective learning.

The three senior high schools in Sagnarigu thus Tamale senior high, Kalpohin senior high, Islamic senior high school have also benefited from infrastructure development and also logistics provision to high easy crowding in the schools due to the increment in enrolment in the schools.

To improve sanitation in the municipality, the assembly has distributed 12 communal containers to 12 dumping sites where people can dump their refuse. But this is still a challenge for the assembly since people still dump the refuse on the ground instead of the container. To achieve a cleaner city, the MCE is advocating for her people to live a healthy life hence an attitudinal change.

Sagnarigu is still at the bottom of the league table in open defecation and this is because people put up beautiful houses but do not add toilet facilities. Currently, the assemble is building eight institutional toilets; four for sagnarigu and four for Tamale north.

In health, six clinics are under construction two are reading for commissioning while the remaining are still under construction. The First Lady, Her Excellency, Mrs. Rebeca Akofo Addo has built CHPS compound and provided logistics in Malshegu under the Sagnarigu municipality.

 With the one village one dam project, Sagnarigu has seventeen dams been constructed. While others are completed some are still in various stages of construction. But three more will be added to make is twenty in the municipality, ten for Sagnarigu and ten for Tamale north.

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