Miss Ghana '99 calls in Bolgatanga

Bolgatanga (Upper East), 2^nd November 99

Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, Upper East Regional Minister, has said that the time has come to break the age-long culture of male dominance in the three Northern Regions through an intensified girl-child education campaign.

He said women in the North undoubtedly have great inherent potential, but they are bound to remain domesticated as long as they are denied the benefit of secular education.

Alhaji Sulemana was speaking in Bolgatanga when Miss Ghana 1999, Mariam Bugri, called on him at the weekend.

He indicated that Miss Bugri, who is of northern extraction, would not have been capable of attaining her present achievement if she had been illiterate.

The Regional Minister was hopeful that the beauty queen would serve as a role model and a source of inspiration to the nation's up-and-coming young girls to be serious with school education.

Responding, Miss Bugri announced that girl-child education and breast cancer are two major subjects she intends to adopt for her charity project during the coming year.

She also made known her plans to come back to the region to interact more with a cross-section of the people when she returns from the Miss World pageant due to be held in London later this month.

The beauty queen later called on the Bolga Naba, Martin Abilba III, at his Palace and he congratulated her for winning the contest and urged her to persevere to annex the Miss World crown.

GRi