Otumfuo endorses Daasebre Oti Boateng s Root-Based Model for sustainable community development
By Jerry Akornor // Contributor
FEB 26, 2021
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II (right) welcoming Daasebre Oti Boateng, Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area at Manhyia Palace
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has expressed his full support for the award-winning Root-based Model for sustainable community development.
These remarks were made during a courtesy call on him at the Manhyia Palace by Daasebre Oti Boateng, Omanhene of New Juaben, who developed the model for Ghana, Africa and the world.
Otumfuo who has closely followed the development of the model noted that, given the overwhelming contemporary development challenges, governments alone cannot effectively respond to them but needs community assistance across the nation to do so.
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New Juaben Traditional Council in the Eastern Region of Ghana is set to introduce Operation Clean Communities to complement government s efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and other diseases such as Cholera, Malaria, Typhoid and Measles.
Dubbed, Operation Clean Communities , the novelty forms part of the New Juaben Traditional Council community development efforts within the implementation strategy of the existing award-winning Root-based development Model (RBM). This initiative was adopted during the Council’s meeting at the Omanhene’s Palace in Koforidua.
Introducing the proposal, Daasebre Professor (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, Omanhene of the Traditional Area, explained that health is one of the six major development categories within the RBM approach.
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New Juaben Traditional Council has held its first virtual meeting to wrap up discussions on a cocktail of issues in order to fast-track the development agenda of the area amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first virtual meeting by the chiefs is in line with World Health Organisation’s protocols to minimise large gathering and spread of the infectious disease.
According to Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, the historic meeting forms part of the leadership of New Juaben Traditional Council’s avowed agenda to invest in appropriate technology aimed at discussing emerging matters in a bid to achieve the core development goals, propel the mission and vision of the traditional area despite Covid-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus: New Juaben Traditional Council holds first virtual meeting
New Juaben Traditional Council has held its first virtual meeting to wrap up discussions on cocktail of issues in order to fast-track the development agenda of the area amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first virtual meeting by the chiefs is in line with World Health Organisation s protocols to minimise large gathering and spread of the infectious disease.
According to Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, the historic meeting forms part of the leadership of New Juaben Traditional Council s avowed agenda to invest in appropriate technology aimed at discussing emerging matters in a bid to achieve the core development goals, propel the mission and vision of the traditional area despite Covid-19 pandemic.