The District Chief Executive for Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District, Mumuni Isaac dramani has stated that the assembly will focus its priority on areas where they have developmental challenges. He said much attention will be given to the provision of water, roads, inadequate teachers for schools as well as nurses for the health facilities in the district. Hon. Mumuni Isaac Dramani disclosed this at the second ordinary meeting of the second year of the fifth session of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Assembly. He said the distribution of water in the district is about sixty-five percent which he believes is not good enough for the district, adding, the Assembly needs to take a decision on the number of boreholes or facilities that they need to have in order to better the lives of the people. On the issue of roads, Hon. Dramani said the Assembly through his own initiative in collaboration with other development agencies like the Ghana Highways Authority, Feeder Roads Department and the Ghana Social Opportunity Project (G-SOP) have been able to work on some number of roads. These include Nyange-Nyange Kura road, Sawla-Sogoyiri road, Kalba-Uro road, Nakpala-Kawie road, Gindabuor-Kanchen-Vodiel road and Gando-Gbegu road. The rest are Sawla-Nakpala-Dagbegu road, Tuna-Kalba road, Tuna-Soma road and Nakwabi-Taari-Dameyiri road. He posited that the district being an agricultural district, they need to ensure that most of the roads linking food growing areas are opened up. Hon. Dramani announced that since the coming into power of the NDC administration, the district has undertaken not less than one hundred infrastructural projects in line with the government policy direction of infrastructural development under the Ghana shared growth and development agenda in areas of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation under various interventions. He stated that most of these projects and interventions have been completed and are in use. Turning to the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), Hon. Dramani said 8 communities are to benefit from afforestation project. The Presiding Member (PM) of the Assembly, Hon. Simons S. Belembe said as the representatives of the various electoral areas, they are the conduit of government policies and must live up to expectations. He suggested that in order to minimize periodic challenges they face in carrying out their duties, the assembly members should endeavor to interact with traditional authorities, community based organizations and community leaders on a continuing basis. ‘‘It is only when we collaborate with our hiefs in carrying out our duties that we can be successful leaders and be proud of our participatory approach,” he said. Traditional institutions therefore need to become active participants in the development process because they hold society together, give it a sense of purpose and enable it to adapt to change, the PM added.