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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