MCE TO STAFF − CULTIVATE AND MAINTAIN A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO WORK 23/06/2026

The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive [MCE], Hon. Roland Atanga Ayoo has called on staff of the Assembly to build and maintain a positive attitude to work as he noted that any wrong or awful attitude of even a single staff could present a bad image for the Assembly in the eyes of the public. He further charged the staff and various departments not to abdicate their core functions to the Assembly’s committees but rather, remain up-to-the-beat and take full discharge of their duties. He emphasized; “the Committees are only complementing your work for which you get paid at the end of every month”.

Hon. Ayoo was addressing a Management Meeting this Tuesday morning (June 23, 2026) at the Assembly’s conference hall. The meeting was a convergence of all Heads of Department as well as, other Unit Heads of decentralized state institutions. He said for instance the fact that sanitation and revenue task forces or committees exist within the Assembly’s framework, should not be the main yardstick to measure the work output of the Environmental Health and Finance units of the Assembly whilst the core staff of these offices are relaxed.

The MCE, after having listened to several presentations, pledged that Management will see to providing the office and logistics’ needs of the departments; one at a time based on resource availability.

The Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr. Alhassan Abdulai in his remarks urged his staff to make meaningful and objective contributions to the meeting, that could help speed up the development of the Municipality. He later called up each Head of Department to make brief departmental presentations on their activities executed so far, next plans and challenges they were encountering in the discharge of their mandate. Some of these included the Social Welfare & Community Development Dept., the Municipal Health Directorate and the Department of Agriculture among others. 

Head of the Social Welfare & Community Development (SW & CD) Dept., Mr. John T. Azam in his presentation disclosed that his office has within the first quarter of 2026, received and managed some 18 Child protection cases. He also revealed that, a total of 10 children who were in institutional care and reunified with their families and foster parents and monitored within the period. Furthermore, the Department collaborated with the Domestic Violence & Victims Support Unit to trace and reunify six (6) unaccompanied children from Burkina Faso.

Mr. Azam also reported that, the 99th and 100th cycle payments for the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) were carried out in the first quarter of the year. These payments covered he said, covered the months September to December, 2025. The total amount for the two disbursements was 939,650.00 Ghana Cedis which was disbursed to some   

1,128 households. Meanwhile on the LEAP Reassessment, he announced that a total of 1,151 households have been enrolled out of the 3,257 number of households which are qualified for enrollment. This represents 35.34% of work done.

The SW and CD Director also touched on the Disability Fund Disbursement and which has so far paid out a total 75,309.17 Ghana Cedis to 97 beneficiaries and two (2) Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) as of June, 2026. This is in addition to an earlier payment schedule in February, amounting to 216,532 Ghana Cedis for 105 beneficiaries and five (5) OPDs. Meanwhile on registration of Day Care Centres, 34 out of 47 centres had their licenses renewed and are in good standing.

Mr. Simon Adjei who represented the Municipal Health Director informed the meeting that, the Directorate within the half-year conducted maternal and neonatal death audits, investigated confirmed measles and yellow fever case, carried out community-based TB screening, undertook HIV screening at the May Day celebration and also conducted routine vaccination against Vaccine Preventable Diseases.

 A Cross Section Of HoDs At The Meeting

Mr. Adjei disclosed that, the Municipality so far recorded a total of 2,524 deliveries from January to May, 2026 with 10 maternal deaths and an unfortunate record of 59 neonatal deaths. He revealed that, his office is providing the health needs of an estimated population of 155,339 as of 2026; comprising 74,341 males and 77,998 females. The Bolgatanga Municipality has nine (9) Sub-Municipals, six (6) health centres, five (5) clinics (all private), three (3) hospitals and 39 functional CHPS facilities.

 

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