[ 2014-09-15 ]

Mion District completes street naming exercise
Sang (N/R), Sept. 14, GNA – The Mion District
Assembly in the Northern Region has successfully
completed its task of naming the streets to beat
the September 30, deadline directive issued by
President John Dramani Mahama.

Mr Daniel Wudinayi Makanda, District Chief
Executive (DCE) for Mion, briefing the GNA at Sang
at the weekend, after a meeting with the chiefs
and people of the area to brief them on the
exercise, said a total of ten streets had been
named in the district capital of Sang with
directional sign boards erected.

The ten streets include the Kpatuya road, Kushilo
road, Duum road, Roman Catholic road, Sapi road
and Kpabia road. The rest are Sang-Tamale road,
Trenyaani road, Alhaji Zakaria road, Sang Lana
road and Yendi road.

He said the exercise had been successful following
the formation and inauguration of the Streets
naming and property Addressing Team (SAT) in April
25, 2013 and tasked with the responsibility of
mapping and assigning appropriate names to streets
and numbering of houses.

Mr Makandan said, the street naming and property
addressing was a continuous exercise and stressed
that though the District Assembly had completed
naming the streets it would not hesitate to name
more roads and streets as and when new areas
develop.

He said a few challenges they encountered in the
exercise, which had caused some delays, was that,
there was no area map of the district and that the
officials were only relying on the Town and
Country Planning office in Tamale for the
exercise.

He said the district was now waiting for the
Satellite image for the property addressing
exercise to begin and expressed the hope that all
would be done before the September 30, deadline
directive issued by President Mahama.

He stressed the importance of the street naming
and property numbering saying, “It would improve
revenue mobilization as well as facilitate the
development of district assemblies in the
country”.

He said the Mion District Assembly had provided an
office space, equipped with computers,
photocopier, printer, scanners and motorbikes to
ensure that the street naming and property
addressing exercise continued even after the
deadline of September 30, this year.

The Mion District has so far been the first in the
Northern Region to complete the street naming
exercise.

Source - GNA

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