VR Police demolishes unauthorized speed ramps

     Ebeh (V/R), (Mensah) GNA-The Volta Regional Police command Thursday began the demolishing of unauthorized speed ramps in the Region.
     This followed the failure of chiefs and opinion leaders to have them removed despite several appeals.
      The move is to reduce the number of road accidents in the Region.
       Mr Alex Bedie, Volta Regional Police Commander warned that Chiefs would be prosecuted if their communities re-constructed those unauthorized ramps.
     “The police in collaboration with the Regional Road Safety Committee have organized a lot of education campaigns on speed ramps and sensitized opinion leaders before this exercise and would not countenance their re-construction,” he said.
     Mr Bedie attributed the rise in road accidents in the Region to the construction of unauthorized speed   ramps and expressed the hope that the removal of the ramps would help reduce accidents in the region drastically.
    He urged drivers to observe recommended speed limits to reduce road accidents.
     Mr Fred Lumor, Regional Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit told the GNA in an interview that, the Region recorded a total of 15 “serious” road accidents last month in which three people were killed.
     The exercise had support from the Road and River Safety Foundation (ROSEF), a non-governmental organization.
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07 July 11

Investor exploring the Volta region for integrated rabbit industry

The Volta Region could soon be home to an integrated rabbit industry capable of supplying processed rabbit meat to local and foreign markets.
Togbe Afede XIV, President of the Volta Region of House of Chiefs gave the hint at a general meeting of the House on Thursday.
When fully established the investment would support about 3,000 out-growers to breed rabbits for sale to the company using parent stocks from France.
Togbe Afede who is Paramount Chief of the Asogli State said the prospective investor was in the region looking for about 10,000 hectares of land close to abundant source of water supply.
He therefore urged Chiefs in the region to seize the opportunity which promises to be beneficial to the region’s economy and people.
Togbe Afede said Chiefs were expected to be initiators and facilitators of development and other activities that could improve the socio-economic situation of their people.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rated meat from rabbit as the most nutritious known to man and the highest in protein.
Rabbit is also said to be lower in percentage fat than chicken, turkey, beef and pork.
Rabbit is also passed as suitable for special diets such as those for heart disease patients, diets for the aged, low sodium diets and weight reduction diets etc.
Information gathered from expert sources on the internet said “as the world’s population grows there will be less land to raise food, the rabbit will play a more increasing role in this supply.”
Meanwhile Togbe Afede urged the government to construct a gas delivery terminal south of the Volta region from the West Africa Gas Project (WAGP) to serve as catalyst for establishing gas related plants in the region.
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