Tuesday, September 30, 2014

TANO SOUTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY HOLDS SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

The Second Ordinary Meeting of the Fourth Session of the Tano South District Assembly has been held at Bechem the District Capital.


 

A section of the Assembly Members at the meeting

    The meeting which deliberated on issues ranging from Health, Education, Revenue Mobilization Presentation of Executive Committee report saw Nana Ampong Kromantang the Krontihene of Techimantia in attendance.

            In a welcome address, the Presiding Member of the Assembly Hon. Anthony Opoku welcomed members to the General Assembly Meeting which he said is an important component of the decentralization process that ensure effective and efficient administration of the District and expressed his profound appreciation to members for responding to the invitation.


Hon. Opoku said over a period several complaints which include land disputes, accommodation, water and sanitation just to mention few have been brought to the attention of the Public relations and complaints committee which is a very important committee of the Assembly and he was happy to announce to Hon. Members that most of these cases have been settled amicably but hinted that reports from Honorable Members from Derma and Ankaase Area Councils reaching the committee indicates that the number of armed robbery cases on the Derma-Asuoso road is on the ascendancy and appealed to the District Security Committee to take the necessary action to curtail the menace.
                               

                          
The Hon. Presiding Member reading his address

Hon. Opoku appreciated the management of the Assembly for heedling to the house’s approval in the procurement of motor bike for the registry in the discharge of their duties and again hinted that the District Chief Executive’s working visits to the various communities which he was part of the entourage afforded the group to interact with the people and know their problems.

Hon. Opoku told members that it was realized during the tour to the Communities that some Hon. Members do not visit some of the Communities within their electoral area and pleaded that they are here to represent their people and it would be unfortunate to hear that for most Assembly Members, it takes time before their electorates see them and appealed to Hon. Members to sit up to their responsibilities and called on all members to feel free to contribute to the deliberations of the house.

The Tano South District Chief Executive Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba in his Sessional address to the House welcomed all to the meeting and said he believed the meeting will offer an opportunity to interact with each other and share ideas on how to move the District on a higher pedestal.

Hon. Anaba said members would agree with him that the effectiveness of the Executive Committee and for that matter the General Assembly rest on how proactive the Sub-Committees are and appealed to Hon. Members to take the work of the Sub-Committees Seriously.

                             

The Hon. DCE delivering his sessional address

On Revenue Mobilization, Hon. Anaba said, we all know money is the live wire of every District Assembly and the ability of any District Assembly to embark on any meaningful development projects no doubt depends on the availability of revenue and in this regard it behoves on us to strategize and use every available and acceptable means to mobilize enough revenue especially Internally Generated Fund (IGF) for the development of the district and said management has carried out some interventions to ensure the improvement of our Internally Generated Fund (IGF).

Hon. Anaba said a total amount of GH¢46,262.49 had been achieved out of the quarterly budget of GH¢57,827.25 representing 80% of revenue collected which though significant but said with the measures put in place, there will be improvement. He said targets for some revenue items have also been exceeded and hinted that for the fifth (5th) year running the Assembly has qualified again for the District Development Facility with 83% for the year 2013 assessment.

Hon. Anaba mentioned that a number of water projects have been carried out in parts of the district which includes the on-going Small Town Water Project at Brosankro and the MP’s boreholes construction project of which 10 No. boreholes have been drilled. He said the District has also benefited from a 10 No. borehole project from the Friends of the Earth Water Project.

Hon. Anaba informed the House that the district has been relatively calm and peaceful and commended the Security Agencies and all for working to sustain peace in the district and to improve access and security of communities in the District, the Assembly has embarked on emergency road works in the district with the reshaping of 13 Km roads which is ongoing including the Derma-Asuoso sections and when these reshaping is completed it will facilitate movement and also help reduce the incidence of armed robbery that the people travelling on some of these roads have been experiencing lately.


Touching on Health and Education, Hon. Anaba said inorder to foresfall any outbreak of an Epidemic, either Ebola or Cholera, the District Epidemic Management Committee has been reactivated and duly inaugurated, He said the District Assembly remains committed to the development of the health sector and has over the years supported the sector in diverse ways and mentioned that in order to achieve the Better Ghana Agenda, the Assembly has agreed to construct two (2) CHIPs Compounds at Breme and Asuboe as directed by the NDC Government to all Assemblies.
Hon. Anaba said Education is widely considered to be critical for development, and as a result successive Governments have made frantic efforts to make education accessible and affordable but however the standard of education in the district still leaves much to be desired and hinted that in the last Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) conducted, there were twenty-five (25) recorded cases of teenage pregnancy in the district and called on Assembly Members as stakeholders to assist in minimizing this unfortunate development to the barest minimum.

Hon. Anaba informed the house that the first phase of street naming and property addressing system has been completed where fifty ( 50) streets have been addressed and the next phase will start immediately and was pleased to announce that Tano South has taken the lead in this Presidential initiative and invited other Assemblies to patronize the Tano South District Rural Technology Facility ( RTF ) signaling of the  street naming.

On the 2014 Regional Farmers Day celebration scheduled for the first Friday of the month of December in every year, Hon. Anaba said, it has been confirmed that it would be hosted by the Tano South District and that it would be held at Derma and called on all and sundry to give off their best to make the celebration in the district a great success.
In conclusion Hon. Anaba again expressed his profound gratitude to Honorable Members, Heads of Department, and other stakeholders for their continued support and co-operation in the discharge of his duties and retariated that we are the voice for the thousands of people we represent and serve and therefore it would be proper that, business of the House is conducted in the best interest of the people.

Nana Ampong Kromantang the Krontihene of Techimantia in his remarks lamented on the spate of gambling by our youth especially the school children in the District and called on the security agencies especially the police to check the spread of a game called the jack pot which is scattered all over the district and mostly patronized by our school children and  pleaded with the Assembly to come out with a bye-law which would restrict the movement of school children in the night.
Nana called on the Assembly to expand the water system at Techimantia and also provide enough street lights and repair the faulty ones in the town.       
 
                                     Nana Kromantang delivering his remakes with some dignitaries at the meeting 





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