The Paramount Chief of Jama Traditional Area in the Bole District of the Savannah Region, Jama Kooro, Nnaa Professor Lanjagor Karley II, says his reign would be characterised by activities that would ensure the development of the area's human resources.

The chief who is known in private life as Professor Noah Kofi Karley, a Cambridge University scholar, in an interview with MyJoyOnline, said no country or community can meet its development with limited or poor human resources, and without the stakeholder role of women contributing to its course.

According to him, in partnership with the Bui Power Authority, he hopes to provide educational as well as job opportunities to residents in his traditional area.

"So, I'm trying to have a conversation with them so that they will help in terms of providing scholarships to some of our people as a significant proportion of land being used for farming have now been used by Bui Power Authority (BPA) over a decade ago for hydro electricity power generation, of which we are yet to be compensated," Jama Kooro Nnaa Lanjagor Karley II indicated.

Touching on gender and environmental protection, the chief said a collaboration with the Tarkwa School of Mines and Technology is in the pipeline to promote women's development through agriculture in the area.

"Recently, I received some researchers from Tarkwa School of Mines and Technology who paid a visit to the stool to see if they could initiate a pilot project on women farmers to provide them with some facilities to be able to determine the soil fertility as well as water level through digitization," he said.

He added that to protect the environment, he has been monitoring the activities of small-scale miners in his area to ensure that they are mining within their concessions.

"As an environmentally sensitive person, I'm very passionate about the environment. We have seen the spillage around Akosombo, and later in Buipe and we want to make sure that it doesn't come and affect the Bui Power Authority area as well.

"So, we are trying to ensure that small-scale miners with concessions are doing the mining in the right direction as we don't want miners to destroy the environment and we are all doing this together as stakeholders," Jama Kooro stated.

He also extended an invitation to all and sundry (stakeholders) who are passionate about development in his traditional area, to come on board to accelerate development in Jama.