The
Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba, accompanied by
Heads of various Departments of the Tano South District Assembly has paid a
two-week working visit to communities in the District.
Hon.
Anthony Opoku, Presiding Member (standing) and other heads of departments
The
visits which aimed at interacting with the people and disseminating of
government policies and programmes and knowing the problems facing the people
saw the D.C.E. and his entourage visiting forty four (44) communities in the
District.
At
different durbars organised in the various communities the D.C.E. visited, he
informed the people that Ghana is at the moment facing some economic challenges
due to various factors and mentioned some of the factors as the implementation
of the Single Spine Pay Policy, the 2012 election petition at the Supreme Court
and Ghana’s attainment of middle income status.
Hon.
Anaba said the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy has increased the
public sector wage bill and for that matter government has to use seventy percent
(70%) of its total revenue to pay its workers and the remaining thirty percent
(30%) used to finance government projects.
Hon.
Anaba explained that Ghana’s attainment of a middle income status meant that
grants which the country was receiving from donor countries had been withdrawn
and for that reason the government has to finance all project and social
intervention programmes which hitherto was been financed with grants.
Hon.
DCE interacting with the people in one of the communities
On
the 2012 election petition at the Supreme Court, Hon. Anaba said proceedings at
the Supreme Court also affected productivity as most Ghanaians abandoned their
work at their various work places to listen to proceedings and spend most of
their time watching proceeding at the Court on television.
On
social intervention programmes, Hon. Anaba said the government is committed to
providing portable water for the rural communities in order to eradicate water
borne diseases facing the people, provide
CHIP compounds to rural communities for them to access good health care
delivery and urged them to practice good sanitation and also use communal labour
to clean their environment to avoid the wide spread of mosquitoes who carry the malaria parasite so as to avoid the
contracting of the malaria disease.
Hon.
Anaba informed the people that, the electoral commission would soon embark on a
Biometric registration exercise to register Ghanaians who have attained the age
eighteen (18) and have not registered to vote. He entreated those people to
take advantage of the registration exercise to register so as to be able to
vote in the 2016 general elections. He again informed the people that the
National Health Insurance Authority is registering children below five (5)
years of age and the aged who are seventy (70) years and above free of charge
in the District.
A
cross section of audience at various durbars
On
measures to combat the economic challenges facing the country, Hon. Anaba said the
government has obtained a one hundred and fifty six million Dollar ($156m) loan facility from the
world bank to tackle some of the challenges in the educational sector and again
mentioned that government would continue to subsidize the price of fertilizer to
enable farmers get access to it at low prices and said the government is also
distributing fertilizers free of charge to cocoa farmers whose cocoa farms are
twelve (12) years and above of cultivation and is four (4) acres and above and
again reminded the cocoa farmers of the
on-going mass cocoa spraying exercise.
The
District Chief Executive on behalf of the Member of Parliament for the Tano
South Constituency, Hon. Dr. Hanna Louisa Bissiw, presented some exercise books
to some primary and junior High Schools in some of the communities he and his
entourage visited.
Hon.
Anaba presenting the exercise books to heads of some of the beneficiary schools
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