The Chief of Staff Julius Debrah shares pleasantries with Nene Okisie Senake
The Chief of Staff Julius Debrah has assured the chiefs and people of Ada in the Greater Accra Region that the Songhor salt fields will receive maximum support from government in 2017.
The Songhor salt fields in Ada West covers a wide stretch of marshy land from where more than 1,000 miners earn a living from extracting the salt when the sea floods the fields.
According to the people of Ada, the fields have the potential to produce enough rich salt for local and international markets.
The chief of staff disclosed this during a courtesy call on Nene Kabu Abraham Akuaku III, paramount chief of Ada Traditional Area, as part of a five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region to solicit votes for President John Mahama.
Dignitaries on the campaign tour included the Deputy Minister of Communications, Ato Sarpong, Prof Kwamena Ahwoi, Mrs Faustina Nelson, Greater Accra Regional Minister and his Deputy, Nii Laryea Affotey Agbo and Nii Djanmah Vanderpuye.
According to the chief of staff, government has put plans together to revamp the salt industry, adding that the miners will begin to reap the success story from 2017 after they have voted for him.
Asafoatse Kabiawe, Nene Okisie Senake, who represented the chief of Ada at the meeting, lauded President Mahama for the Ada sea defence project, construction of schools and other medical infrastructure, adding that his community has no doubt got its fair share of the national cake.
At the Ada College of Education, the Mr Debrah assured the staff and students that government would support one out of their three concerns raised in the area of the construction of a multipurpose auditorium, classroom blocks and fixing of pavement blocks on the college’s roads.
 By Solomon Ofori