By Beatrice Senaju
Kparia is blessed with many natural resources, but the Community has no development to show. For more than four centuries, the people of Kparia, a Farming Community in the North Gonja district, have found it difficult to trade with other communities in order to survive. They are unable to connect to relatives and business partners across the country. Beatrice Senadju visited the town and reports that the visit to Kparia was not planned.
The town was mentioned to me, she says due to the many tourism potentials it is endowed with. A quick decision and the journey to Kparia began. We drove for about two hours from Daboya. Kparia is a farming and weaving Community in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region. Kparia means, “we are here to fight against our enemies”. The indigenes of Kparia are Tampulma and speak the Tampulsi language. From history, their ancestors migrated from Damgbin, which also means an “old house” and finally settled here at Kparia. Kparia has a scattered settlement and is the oldest town in the Tampulma Community.
There is no clinic or a CHPS compound here at Kparia. Residents walk for miles to Mankarigu to see a doctor. It is more difficult for pregnant women and children. Hafiz Amina, a thirty-year-old mother of three gave an account of how she lost her child years ago. Her deepest desire is for help to come urgently from the government.
With a population of about seven hundred, indigenes of Kparia say, there has not been any major developmental project in their town. One of their major problems is the absence of electricity in the town. The Community has not been connected to the national grid, and they say this has worked negatively for them.
Access to telecommunication networks is almost nonexistent. I spotted this particular point within the Community, where indigenes hang their phones on the roof of a building to get connected to a network.
The road network here is poor. The people say, due to this, no vehicle operates here. They only rely on motorbikes, referred to as Okada, which is not always available.
The people of Kparia believe that a country is developed if its rural communities have the basic amenities like hospitals, good roads, communication networks and proper educational facilities in place.
They are therefore appealing to the government for assistance soon, so they too can catch up with the world, and give back to the children in the Community.
Below is the video;
https://youtu.be/-rHcHYJhe1c
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I’m a native of Kparia,born and raised in the community. That’s the truth about the community hhhhmmm pathetic!! ADAM ABDUL HAKIM is my name
We are appealing to the government to come to our aid.