[ 2014-07-19 ]

DCE, more accessible to the people
Jacobu (Ash), July 19, GNA – The Ashanti
Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong, has urged
District Chief Executives (DCE’s) to make sure
that they become accessible to the people.
They need to establish good working relations with
people in communities under their watch, saying
this would enable the DCE’s to know the concerns
and needs of the communities they work and help
meet their expectations.

Mr Sarpong made these comments at a meeting held
with members of the Amansie Central District
Assembly at Jacobu during a familiarisation tour.

He said the success of the decentralisation
programme would largely depend on the extent of
co-operation and responsiveness of the various
stakeholders.

The visit provided him the opportunity to interact
with the heads of departments, the chiefs and the
people on ways to speed up the development of the
area.

Mr Sarpong underlined the need to scale up the
internal revenue mobilization effort to ensure
transparency and accountability.

By doing that he added could benefit the central
government’s Financial Organisational Assessment
Tool (FOAT) to support its development projects.

Mr Sarpong urged the assembly to give priority to
environmental sanitation to prevent diseases,
mentioning that street naming and property
addressing system must also engage serious
attention to ensure security and social services
in Jacobu.

Mr Emmanuel Dede Appiah, the DCE, complained about
growing illegal mining in the area and said they
needed the support of the Regional Security
Council (REGSEC) to fight it.

He again had concerns about numerous school
projects stalled over the lack of funding and
appealed to the Ghana Education Trust Fund
(GET-Fund) to make money available to complete
them.

The Regional Minister later inspected some
on-going government projects and inaugurated a
dormitory block built for the Jacobu Senior High
Technical with the capacity to accommodate 1,000
students.

Source - GNA

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