The first
ordinary session of the sixth Assembly of the Tano South District Assembly has
been held at Bechem.
The first
ordinary meeting saw in attendance Assembly Members both old and new, Heads of
various Government departments in the district, Nananom and a cross section of
the general public.
Delivering
his opening remark, the Presiding Member of the Assembly, Hon. Anthony Opoku
warmly welcomed all present especially the new Assembly Members.
Hon.
Opoku said he enjoyed working with the old Assembly Members during the past
four years and said he expected that, the new Assembly Members would accord him
the necessary attention and cooperation in order for them to deliver to their
people what they expected from them.
Hon.
Opoku said, General Assembly Meeting is an important component of the
decentralization process which has practical application and relevance to
governance and for that matter the development of the district.
He said
whereas staff of the Central Administration at the Local Government level
performs executive functions, honourable members must also ensure that, these
executive functions are carried out with the high sense of urgency and within
the ambit of prescribed regulations.
Hon.
Opoku said Assembly Members by their unique position are expected to play a
significant role in the local governance system and stressed that the
sub-committees of the Assemblies have unique role to play and used the platform
to appeal to all heads of department, Hon. DCE, and Hon. Assembly Members to
develop a very good working relationship with each other devoid of acrimonious partisanship
and deep seated mistrust, but based on consensus building which would lead to
the collective achievement of results thereby improving the lives of their
people.
Hon.
Opoku congratulated the Member of Parliament of the constituency for the
numerous projects she is undertaking in the district and equally welcomed her
to the august house and hoped she would always make time to be present with
them in their subsequent District Assembly Meetings and expressed his profound
gratitude to the Hon. District Chief Executive, Nananom, District Co-ordinating
Director and her deputies and heads of department for their continuous support
to Hon. Members in the discharge of their duties and called on each and
everyone to feel free and contribute constructively on issues to be discussed
at the meeting.
In his
sessional address at the meeting, the Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon.
Bukari Zakari Anaba said he was highly privileged to address yet another
session of the Assembly and used the occasion to welcome all to the meeting and
congratulated Hon. Assembly Members for their successful election and also
congratulated Hon. Presiding Member for his re-election.
Hon.
Anaba expressed his profound appreciation and congratulated the Omanhene of
Bechem Traditional Area, Nananom, Hon. Presiding Member, Hon. Member of
Parliament, Hon. Assembly Members, Departmental Heads and all stakeholders for
their continuous support and keen participation in activities of the Assembly
which has brought the Assembly to this height.
Hon.
Anaba said the Assembly has been guided with the sense of unity of purpose in
it’s deliberations and appealed to Hon. Members to continue to work with
collaborative spirit since it is crucial for the advancement of the district
and said he was also delighted to state that the District is either first or
among the first Districts that are able to organize the first ordinary meeting
of the first session at this time.
Hon.
Anaba said the Assembly in collaboration with all the relevant stakeholders
designed and implemented some strategies which resulted in some improvement in
revenue mobilization.
Hon.
Anaba said the District has remained relatively calm and peaceful largely due
to the hard work and diligence of the District Security Committees but
mentioned that, however there have been isolated cases of stealing, chieftaincy
and boundry disputes in the District.
The District
Chief Executive announced that the government has awarded contract for the
construction of Bechem Town Roads and work has started. He said the Governments’
community Senior High School which is being constructed by Mssrs SGL Investment
Ltd at Derma is progressing steadily and prayed the Ghana Education Service
would speed up processes for the school to start and also informed the house that
the MP for the Constituency, Hon. Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw has procured 5000
cock crow literature books to be distributed soon to all Junoir High Scchools
District wide and ten thousand exercise books to selected Schools in the
Disstrict whiles the District Assembly and the Regional Directorate of
Education has also provided fifty boxes of chalk and four-fifty free School
uniforms to be distributed respectively.
Hon.
Anaba commended Nananom, Honourable Assembly members and all for their regular participation
in all the National Sanitation exercises conducted in the District since its
inception and called on the Assembly members to sensitise their people on the
need to always participate in the clean-up exercise whenever they are called
upon. He said the Assembly has observed with great concern, the rate at which
people indiscriminately put up structures without resort to any laid down plan
for the District and humbly appealed to Nananom, Assembly members and all
stakeholders to educate and caution people to desist from building in areas
where they are not supposed to build and informed the House that the Assembly
has undertaken a number of on-going infrastructural projects.
The Omanhene
of Bechem Traditional Area, Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II, who was a special
guest, in a speech, informed the House that since there was the need for
development projects to be executed in Bechem the District Capital,he has given
a parcel of land to the Assembly for its development project such as the light
Industrial Area(Magazine) but what he has observed is that the land has been encroached
by unauthorised people and called on the Assembly to take steps to clear
these people from the place. Nana Fosu
Gyeabour Akoto II called on the Assembly members to give their support and help
to the revenue officers of the Assembly in the discharge of their duties so that
they can get more revenue for the Assembly and finally called on all to give
their maximum support and help in the celebration of the impending Adekyem
Festival of the Chiefs and the people of Bechem Traditional Area
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