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German Catholic priest installed as Chief in Northern Region

This comes on the back of several developmental projects he has pursued in the area.
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The chief and people of Chamba, a community in the Nanumba North district of the Northern Region have installed a 75-year-old German expatriate, Rev. Fr. Joseph Renner has been installed as a development chief.

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Some of these projects include educational facilities ranging from Kindergarten to Senior High School in and around Chamba.

Father Joseph Renner Maligu Naa who has lived in the area for over 40 years has also established a sponsorship scheme for brilliant but needy students.

Scores of boreholes in different communities around Chamba for potable drinking water are also initiative.

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Father Renner first came to Ghana in 1970 and moved to the district in 1975 as an evangelist of the Catholic faith.

In 1997, he settled at Chamba and established the Catholic parish and a health facility there.

He, however, left Ghana to Germany in the early 1980s and returned in 2000 where he began pursuing the above developmental projects for the area.

The Chief of Chamba on behalf of the people of Chamba was grateful to Father Renner for the development he has ensured in the area.

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