President John Mahama has announced his administration’s decision to decentralise recruitment into the nation’s security services.  

This is in line with the President’s campaign promise to Ghanaians during the 2024 general election.  

President Mahama disclosed this at Juaboso in his address at a durbar of the Chiefs and People of the Western North Region during his Thank You Tour of the Region.  

The nationwide Thank You Tour is to enable the President to express gratitude to Ghanaians for their massive support during the 2024 general election.  

President Mahama said the process would start once financial clearance was received from the Minister of Finance.  

“And when we get it, every region is going to have a quota to send our young people to serve in the security services,” he said.  

Touching on sports and recreation, President Mahama also announced the Government’s decision to build modern sports stadia in the six new regions and other regions that did not have them.   

He said Mr Kofi Iddie Adams, the Minister of Sports and Recreation, was overseeing the design of modern sports stadia for the six new regions and the regions that did not have them.  

“And so Western North is going to receive a modern sports stadium,” he said.  

The President also disclosed that plans were underway for the construction of a university and a Regional Hospital in the Western North Region.