ASSEMBLY HOLDS CONSULTATIVE FORUM WITH STAKEHOLDERS ON 2018 FEE FIXING 18 -09- 2017


The Bongo District Assembly on Monday September 18, 2017, held a consultative meeting with various stakeholders on the Assembly’s 2018 Fee Fixing Resolution. The main objective of the meeting was to solicit inputs from the business community and other like-minded entrepreneurs as well as the citizenry in agreeing on what was reasonable to charge as fees and levies in the coming year.

Participants who took part actively in the deliberations included Area Council Chairmen and Secretaries, Accredited Revenue Collectors of the Assembly, representatives of business associations such as fuel station operators, hairdressers, market women, mechanics and beer bar operators among others. Some critical unit and departmental heads at the Assembly also attended the meeting.

In his opening remarks, Acting District Coordinating Director Mr. Akaditi Aymbire commended the participants for their prompt attendance to the meeting stressing that, it was indicative of their commitment to see the district develop. He urged them to follow the presentations attentively and offer their objective contributions to the discussions as this will constitute the views of the various groups they represented. 

According to Mr. Akaditi, since Ghana decided to decentralise, the Bongo District Assembly was among the early districts to be created in the country and actually got inaugurated in 1988. He noted however that since then, there has not been so much to show and called on the current crop of the Assembly’s staff to work even harder while he appealed to people and business entities who do transactions with the Assembly to be honest in their dealings.

Bongo District Budget Analyst, Mr. Sibaway Ahmed explained that the meeting was necessary because it conformed with standard practice before the Assembly could formally come out with the certified document of fees and levies for the ensuing year. He further explained that, the discussions for the day would be submitted to the Finance and Administration Committee of the Assembly for its perusal which will in turn forward it to the Executive Committee for further deliberations. He said, the document will finally be sent to the General Assembly for discussions and subsequent adoption as a working document.

The Local Government Inspector with the Assembly, Mr. Alfred R. Nyaaba who took the participants through the various items and their corresponding fees and levies mentioned a host of development projects that could be executed effectively if they Assembly were able to collect the needed revenues. He noted that the clinics and CHPS compounds, the school blocks, market stores and assistance in the area of agriculture could all be given appropriate attention if all stakeholders in the revenue collection chain played their parts religiously without diverting monies and other resources they were assigned to collect for the Assembly.

Mr. Nyaaba observed that many tipper trucks damaged the road infrastructure through their activities and should therefore be charged appropriately as compensation to the Assembly. He also explained that some of the fees and levies though may seem high, were to deter people from doing businesses that were injurious to the health of the citizenry such as the sale of alcoholic beverages.






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