By Mildred Siabi-Mensah
Takoradi, Feb. 4, GNA – Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba II, the Acting Paramount Queen mother of the Shama Traditional Council, says she is committed to driving positive change in the Western Region if elected a member of the Council of State.
She also pledged to advocate regional development by championing projects and policies that focused on critical areas such as infrastructure development, education, and healthcare.
Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba II, the Queen Mother of the Nyankrom Community in the Shama District, shared her vision to becoming the Council of State member for the region in an interview with the Ghana News Agency.
She pledged to offer expert advice and support to the President and other government officials on regional issues, leveraging on her knowledge and experience.
Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba II stressed the need for effective collaboration with traditional leaders, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to understand their concerns and priorities, ensuring inclusive decision-making.
She said addressing regional-based challenges would be her focus, adding that she would work tirelessly to bring attention to pressing regional issues such as poverty, education, and healthcare to find sustainable solutions to the challenges.
“My vision is to also entrench the cultural heritage while, fostering entrepreneurial and other investment initiatives aimed to create a lasting positive impact on the Western Region and contribute to Ghana’s overall development, she added.
Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba II is the acting paramount queen mother of the Shama Traditional Council. Known in private life as Ms Linda Bartrop-Sackey, Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba is a native of Nyankrom near Shama.
Born on the 19th of April, 1963, at Cape Coast to the late Mr Alfred T. R. Bartrop-Sackey (public servant, secretary to the Central Regional House of Chiefs) and Mrs Magdalene Bristowe Bartrop-Sackey, a fashion designer and homemaker.
She began her basic education in cape coast, shuttling through four different basic schools in the Cape Coast district – Mensah Sarbah Primary School, Wesley Girls Primary School, Pedu DC Primary and Albert Sam Memorial Preparatory School.
She continued to the University Practice Secondary School and graduated with GCE ordinary level certificate from Technology secondary school (KNUST)in Kumasi.
Having pursued a career in administration and secretaryship, she completed her studies at Takoradi Technical University, formerly Takoradi Polytechnic. With her profession in administration, she worked with several companies and agencies in Accra. With her entrepreneurial and managerial skills, she set up her own private companies and shops. She is the CEO of Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba Foundation.
As the queen mother of Nyankrom and the acting Paramount Queen mother, she had carried out her role with passion, dedication and commitment, earning her the accolades “affable nanahemaa” and “unprecedented queen mother “.
The community has benefitted immensely with her studies and background in chieftaincy studies; leadership and management, developmental projects and youth empowerment programmes.
To broaden her horizon in what she sees as the mining, oil and gas and its attendant effects on the environment she undertook training on women empowerment.
Her versatility has made her the face of the Traditional Councils as she acts as its paramount queenmother.
Her passion for advocacy, girls’ empowerment, youth development and community welfare is unparalleled.
She has served on many boards, and committees and pioneered projects and celebrations which has placed her community on the map.
GNA