MRS AWUNI GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT (PAGE 39)

THE Deputy Upper East Regional Minister designate, Mrs Lucy Awuni has expressed her appreciation to the President for appointing her to serve the region.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic on phone, Mrs Awuni, who is a retired educationist and social development worker, expressed the hope that with her experience as a teacher and having served with a non governmental organisation, she would offer the necessary assistance to the regional minister to administer the region to the admiration of all.
She said when confirmed, she would assist the regional minister to work closely with the security agencies to effectively deal with all forms of conflict confronting the region.
“We need to dialogue very often as a people to address our disagreements”, the deputy minister designate stressed.
Mrs Awuni also promised to work closely with women groups to tackle head-on the challenges facing them, adding “I will pay special attention to the empowerment of women and involve them in the decision making process, especially on peace building.
Born at a village known as Yaligu in the Bawku municipality, Mrs Awuni obtained her basic education at Navrongo. She said after completing middle form four, she proceeded to the Tamale Women’s Teacher Training College for a four-year Certificate ‘A’ course.
According to her, after her teacher training course, she taught for some time before pursuing a specialist course in Home Economics at the St Louis Training College.
She later returned to the classroom where she rose through the ranks to the position of senior superintendent in the Ghana Education Service.
Mrs Awuni later left the teaching profession and joined the development world where she worked as the Women’s Development Coordinator for the Navrongo-Bolgatanga diocese of the catholic church from 1987 to 1996.
She later joined Action Aid Ghana as an education programme officer in charge of formal and non-formal sectors. After working for 21 years with the development world, she proceeded on voluntary retirement in 1999.
Mrs Awuni is married to the former Member of Parliament for the Binduri constituency, Mr Mark Anthony Awuni and blessed with six children, five females and a male.