TANO SOUTH MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY HOLDS ASSEMBLY MEETING AT BECHEM

 

The First Ordinary meeting of the First Session of the Tano South Municipal Assembly has been held at Bechem, the Municipal capital in the Ahafo Region.

 

Picture on extreme left indicates the dignitaries while the other one shows participants at the meeting

The meeting which took place at the St. Joseph’s College of Education Conference Hall saw in attendance the MCE for Tano South,Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi,  Mr Asare Antwi,  the Presiding Member of the Assembly,  Mr. Akaditi Ayambire, Municipal Coordinating Director, Nananom and  Heads of various  Departments and Agencies

In his welcome address, Mr. Asare Antwi, the Presiding Member of the Assembly thanked members for honoring the invitation and said the meeting was to reflect on the development needs and aspirations of the people in Mucipality. He educated the assembly members on the work of the public relations and complains committee (PRCC) of the Assembly and encouraged them to educate their electorates to report grievances to the committee. He also entreated the house to come out with innovative ways to help the assembly mobilize revenue for the implementation of programs and projects.

Mr. Asare commended the house for the confidence reposed in him and urged them to come together as one people with one common destiny to work to ensure Assembly achieves its goals.

The Presiding Member of the Assembly is addressing the House

He entreated all members to contribute their parts to ensure the success of the meeting.  

 The Municipal Chief Executive for Tano South, Mr Collins Offinam Takyi in his sessional address congratulated all members of the house especially the newly elected Assembly Members and urged them to bring their expertise to make the Assembly embarks on massive development projects in the Municipality. On human resource, he said the Assembly had 175 permanent staff and 38 temporal staff. On Finance, he said the assembly faces problem with funds, especially IGF and hinted that the said funds delay the execution of development’s projects in the Municipality.

 Speaking on Justice and Security, he indicated that the Assembly has made progress in terms of the execution of the projects and informed the house to support the Assembly to establish Municipal Divisional Command of Ghana Police Service and Immigration Service.

            

MCE for Tano South delivering his keynote at the meeting

 On education, Mr Takyi outlined the benefits the Municipality has enjoyed from the implementation of the Free SHS policy including the areas Health, Agriculture and among others. 

On the executive committee report of the Assembly, he said the Assembly would form task force to assist revenue collectors to mobilize more revenue for the Assembly. This he said would go a long way to make the Assembly executes more developmental projects to improve the living standards of the people.

TANO SOUTH MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY HOLDS A TWO DAY WORKSHOP FOR ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

 

The Tano South Municipal Assembly has held a two-day workshop for assembly members in the municipality at JOSCO assembly hall. 

The workshop was aimed at educating assembly members especially new elected and appointed ones on their roles, power and work as assembly members and proceedings at assembly meetings.

                  

Some Hon. Assembly members at the programme

In attendance were the Municipal Chief Executive for Tano South, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, The Presiding Member, Mr. Asare Antwi, The coordinating director, Mr. Ayambire Akadite, representatives from NALAC, assembly members and some staff of the municipal administration.

The MCE, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi in his welcome address welcomed all members present and thanked representatives from NALAC for making time to educate members. He acknowledged that the

                        

The Municipal Chief Executive for Tano South, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi speaking at the function

workshop was needful because times keep changing and therefore calls for acquiring new knowledge on ways to tackle the work given. He said that though their works had already started and most of them had found their way around it, he urged members to be attentive and learn from the workshop since it has been well planned to give them the new required knowledge and skills needed to execute their work as assembly members. He mentioned that both appointees and elected members had the same mandate and urged them to work together wherever they found themselves. He concluded by telling assembly members not to put all their hopes on the central government with regards to development in the municipality, he pleaded with them to unite and work together for the greater good of Tano South Municipal.

In a short but impressive address the Team leader Mr. Kwasi Larnyoh said, though some of the things that will be talked about may not look new to most people but urged them to still pay attention since it is different from all the previous ones. He mentioned that the training was aimed at reforming the current assembly and educating them to focus more on developing their electoral areas and their assembly as a whole. He continued that the PowerPoint presentations had been put in a book to enable them to revisit at anytime. He ended by giving audience a brief on what they had to expect from the various presentations.

                        

The Team leader Mr. Kwasi Larnyoh educating Hon. Members

A CLEANUP EXERCISE HELD AT AKOBRO

 

The Assembly member for Akobro/Nyamebeye electoral area Hon. Afoakwa Kwasi has organise a cleanup exercise in the area. This exercise was aimed at cleaning the environment and inculcating the habit of cleanliness in electorates.

The clean-up exercise attracted a large number of people who participated in distilling choked gutters, weeding and sweeping of the environment.

          

Some of the activities at the community

In his address, Hon. Afoakwa thanked all participants for coming in their numbers to support such a good course, he mentioned that cleanliness is next to godliness and for that matter it was necessary to keep the environs clean. He continued by educating participant on covid-19 safety protocols and urged them to teach others in their homes and community.

                        

Hon. Afoakwa talking at the function

Hon. Afoakwa advised the people not to dump refuse indiscriminately and later turn to clean them and urged all and sundry to be regular participants in all clean up exercises. He said, the exercise has helped tremendously to beautify the environment and has also helped to reduce cases of malaria and other air- borne diseases.

Speaking at the close of the clean- up exercise, Abuba Fuseni who represented the environmental health officer at Techimantia said, the clean-up exercise is to tidy their environments and must be treated as such. He said a clean environment breeds healthy people and healthy people become productive in the socio-economic life a nation and urged all present not to make the exercise a nine-day wonder. He said it will go a long way to bring sanity into our environment and urged all officials of the Assembly to enforce a law to make the exercise binding.