LATE RELEASE OF COMMON FUND NOT HELPING
LATE RELEASE OF COMMON FUND NOT HELPING
BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM 22/10/2009
ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL
The late disbursement of the district assemblies’ common fund is impacting negatively on the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly’s efforts to implement a number of projects. With the month of October ending, the assembly is yet to receive its share of the common fund for the second quarter of the year.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive [MCE], Honourable Epsona Harry Ayamga made this known at the assembly’s third ordinary meeting held last Thursday. He noted that the assembly had to rely on its internally generated funds [IGF] to execute some of its ongoing projects noting that the IGF itself is also inadequate.
The municipal chief executive said the major projects being executed include the phase two the sixth Micro-projects programme and the district wide assistance projects [DWAP]. He said work is almost completed on the European Union projects while the Dorongo school project has been completed and is currently being used.
Also, a Community Health Planning Services [CHPS] compound at Dachio is completed while finishing works are ongoing on another CHPS compound at Yorogo with counterpart funding from the municipal assembly. Meanwhile, work is in process under the DWAP projects to finish a three-classroom block and a CHPS compound at Sherigu-Madina.
Honourable Ayamga commended honourable assembly persons for approving four hundred and forty-five thousand, eight-hundred and fifty Ghana Cedis, twenty-three Pesewas for the first portion of the district development fund for projects in selected thematic areas.
He further told the house that earlier in October, the ministry of local government sent a team of consultants to assess the assembly on the Functional Organization Assessment Tool [FOAT] criteria which will make more funding available to the municipal assembly under the district development fund.
Commenting on the suggestion by the planning sub-committee that the assembly should write the town and country planning department asking it to do proper zoning of all unplanned areas within the municipality, the MCE said sanity will be instilled to do away with the building of unauthorized structures.
Also responding to a concern raised by the assemblyman for Dachio-Katanga, Honourable Samuel Adosey on the issue of unauthorized building, Honourable Ayamga said irrespective of what people will hold against the government, buildings found to be constructed on water ways and those put up without the necessary permits will be pulled down at the appropriate time.
The issue of banning record dance in the communities as a means of reducing fallen standards in education was discussed extensively while concerns about the municipality’s road network took the better part of the deliberations of the assembly.
BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM 22/10/2009
ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL
The late disbursement of the district assemblies’ common fund is impacting negatively on the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly’s efforts to implement a number of projects. With the month of October ending, the assembly is yet to receive its share of the common fund for the second quarter of the year.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive [MCE], Honourable Epsona Harry Ayamga made this known at the assembly’s third ordinary meeting held last Thursday. He noted that the assembly had to rely on its internally generated funds [IGF] to execute some of its ongoing projects noting that the IGF itself is also inadequate.
The municipal chief executive said the major projects being executed include the phase two the sixth Micro-projects programme and the district wide assistance projects [DWAP]. He said work is almost completed on the European Union projects while the Dorongo school project has been completed and is currently being used.
Also, a Community Health Planning Services [CHPS] compound at Dachio is completed while finishing works are ongoing on another CHPS compound at Yorogo with counterpart funding from the municipal assembly. Meanwhile, work is in process under the DWAP projects to finish a three-classroom block and a CHPS compound at Sherigu-Madina.
Honourable Ayamga commended honourable assembly persons for approving four hundred and forty-five thousand, eight-hundred and fifty Ghana Cedis, twenty-three Pesewas for the first portion of the district development fund for projects in selected thematic areas.
He further told the house that earlier in October, the ministry of local government sent a team of consultants to assess the assembly on the Functional Organization Assessment Tool [FOAT] criteria which will make more funding available to the municipal assembly under the district development fund.
Commenting on the suggestion by the planning sub-committee that the assembly should write the town and country planning department asking it to do proper zoning of all unplanned areas within the municipality, the MCE said sanity will be instilled to do away with the building of unauthorized structures.
Also responding to a concern raised by the assemblyman for Dachio-Katanga, Honourable Samuel Adosey on the issue of unauthorized building, Honourable Ayamga said irrespective of what people will hold against the government, buildings found to be constructed on water ways and those put up without the necessary permits will be pulled down at the appropriate time.
The issue of banning record dance in the communities as a means of reducing fallen standards in education was discussed extensively while concerns about the municipality’s road network took the better part of the deliberations of the assembly.
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