Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has counseled traditional leaders in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region, to shun disputes over boundaries to allow development of the area. Mr. Ablakwa noted that many projects have failed in the area inevitably due to “needless battles of boundaries” relating to the location of those projects. The Deputy Minister, who is also the NDC’s parliamentary candidate for the North Tongu Constituency, was addressing a stakeholders’ durbar of the Torgorme Irrigation Project (TIP) at Torgorme on Friday, 28th September, 2012. The Torgorme Irrigation Project is a Millennium Development Authority (MIDA) funded project for construction and development of irrigated agriculture covering about 8km from Juapong, on the main Tema-Ho highway. A potential area of 2000 hectares stretching closely along the Volta River from the Kpong hydropower dam in the northwest to the Alabo River in the southeast is available for development. Addressing the gathering, Mr. Ablakwa announced to the farmers that government through the Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF), had approved $6 million for the completion of the final phase of the project to make it become fully operational by February, 2013. The Deputy Minister also condemned the recent murder of condemned the killing of a Zimbabwean investor Andrew Mayer who was in Juapong to invest in agriculture. He warned “this should be the last time that any investor is antagonized”. “All issues must be addressed peacefully and no investor; local or foreign should be attacked again,” he cautioned.