Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend gave the assurance that Government would equip the Police and the Military with logistics to enable them to boot out all highway robberies in the country.

"Armed Robbers have over the years terrorized and traumatized people on our highways and Government is working out a modality to empower the security agencies to undertake constant patrols and I will like to assure the robbers that, we shall match them boot by boot."
Vice President Mahama was addressing the Chiefs and people of Bamboi in the Bole District of the Northern Region during their annual Yam festival "Pedia'.
His assurance was in reaction to the call by Nnaa Kwaku Dapaah II, Bamboi Kuoro and Paramount Chief of the North Mo Traditional Area, to help solve the rampant armed robbery cases between Bole and Bamboi over the years.
Vice President Mahama said "Pedia' is a festival that seeks to thank the gods and ancestors of the land for sustaining and keeping the people through healthy and reproductive lives during the lean season.
The festival, which was on the theme: "Maintaining Our Cultural Values for Sustainable Peace, Unity and Development", is normally characterized by the distribution of food to the needy, widows and relatives as a way of sharing their burdens.
Vice President Mahama said it was unacceptable for people, who were engaged in agricultural activities, to feed the rest of the country to constantly be terrorized by 'unscrupulous armed robbers" adding that the robbers should be preparing to abandon their trade.
He announced that Government was working round the clock to establish a Nursing Training College in the area.
The Vice President said while plans were also advanced to build a Senior High School in Bamboi to reduce the burden of sending children to either Wenchi or Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region or Bole in the Northern Region for schooling.
He warned the people against charcoal burning, which he said was affecting the forest and land.
Vice President Mahama encouraged the people to embrace the Youth in Agriculture programme so that they would be adequately supported to undertake agricultural activities on commercial basis.
He urged them to participate in the forthcoming Population and Housing Census as it was one of the criteria that could influence the creation a separate constituency and district for them.
Mr. Moses Mabengba, Northern Regional Minister, called for unity among the people in order to enhance the needed development and growth of the area.
He said the Regional Coordinating Council had embarked on school projects in the area and called on parents to reciprocate the gesture by sending their children to school.
Nnaa Dapaah II appealed to Government to upgrade the Health Centre in the area into a hospital, provide a Police station and a Senior High School in the area.