{"id":5380,"date":"2026-05-27T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:13:01","slug":"sacrifice-discipline-unity-regional-ministers-eid-ul-adha-message-to-the-upper-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/sacrifice-discipline-unity-regional-ministers-eid-ul-adha-message-to-the-upper-west\/","title":{"rendered":"SACRIFICE, DISCIPLINE &#038; UNITY: REGIONAL MINISTER&#8217;S EID-UL-ADHA MESSAGE TO THE UPPER WEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">EID-UL-ADHA 2026 \u00b7 UPPER WEST REGION, GHANA.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Upper West Regional Minister Hon. Charles Lwanga Puozuing, Esq., used this year&#8217;s Eid-ul-Adha celebration to deliver a stirring call for collective responsibility, discipline, and unity among the people of the region.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Drawing on the spirit of Prophet Ibrahim&#8217;s sacrifice, the Minister urged citizens to choose honesty over corruption, peace over violence, and unity over division \u2014 emphasising that lasting development begins not in conference rooms, but in homes, markets, schools, and mosques.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He made a passionate appeal to the youth to resist drug abuse, crime, and internet fraud, while urging communities to restore the region&#8217;s proud tradition of cleanliness, order, and hospitality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The development of the Upper West Region is our collective responsibility. We cannot condemn crime publicly and protect criminals privately.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014 Hon. Charles Lwanga Puozuing, Upper West Regional Minister<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Minister also highlighted Government&#8217;s transformational agenda \u2014 including the Big Push, agricultural modernisation, and the 24-hour economy policy \u2014 encouraging all residents, especially youth and women, to seize available opportunities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>He concluded with a vision of a peaceful, clean, disciplined, and economically vibrant Upper West Region \u2014 one that future generations will be proud to inherit. 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Upper West Regional Minister Hon. Charles Lwanga Puozuing, Esq., used this year&#8217;s Eid-ul-Adha celebration to deliver a stirring call for collective responsibility, discipline, and unity among the people of the region. Drawing on the spirit of Prophet Ibrahim&#8217;s sacrifice, the Minister urged citizens to choose honesty over corruption, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uwrcc.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}