Bunkpurugu
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Bunkpurugu is a town in the Northern Region of Ghana close to the border with Togo.
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Bunkpurugu is a male dominated area,where females/women are left behind in almost every thing concerning the development of the district. The NPP Government has however put in place programs and structures to avert the trend.
Bunkpurugu is now a District Capital of the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District Assembly where the administrative issues of the district is carried out. The Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programs implemented by the government throuh the district assemble has increased school enrolment. The good news is that more girls are now in school than before. Hope is in sight! The appointment of a Female District Chief Executive came as welcoming news to the once male dominated area. The Administrative Head of the District couldn't have been a man.
Bunkpurugu is still without electricity and good access road(s). The only Police Post in the District is in a deplorable state. There is no portable drinking water, the nearest major hospital is miles away in Nalerigu.
About two-thirds of the youth had migrated either to the southern parts of the country or to Ivory Coast to work on cocoa plantations. He said 80 per cent of educated youth from the area were also working outside the district.(ghanaweb).
As a result of the inadequacies in development, government workers were refusing to take transfer to the district while private individuals were also declining to establish businesses there. This led to the nick-naming of the area as "a State within the Ghana State or an orphaned district". (ghanaweb).
The people of the district are hoping that the their share of the national cake will be given them without any "blocks"
