[ 2014-09-17 ]

Atwima-Mponua struggling with inadequate funds
Nyinahin (Ash), GNA – Poor internal revenue
generation combined with inadequate funding from
the government is crippling the performance of the
Atwima-Mponua District Assembly.

The assembly is finding it difficult to carry
through its development agenda to transform the
socio-economic situation of the predominantly
farming population, says Deputy District
Coordinator, Mr Simon Twum Nkansah.

The district, the second largest in the Ashanti
Region, in terms of land size is struggling with
bad roads and the lack of key infrastructure in
the areas of health, education and security.

Mr Nkansah said despite the challenges the
assembly “has not gone to sleep”.

He said the assembly is working hard and with
determination to find new ways of doings things,
to make the socio-economic conditions in the
communities better.

He made this known while contributing to
discussions at a stakeholders meeting held at
Nyinahin on the GNA/STAR-Ghana media auditing and
tracking of development projects, an initiative,
launched to put a spotlight on how government’s
resources are affecting the lives of the rural
population.

The goal is to aid transparency, promote
accountability and good governance.

Atwima-Mponua was created 10 years ago to fast
track the area’s socio-economic development but
has since been struggling and has been rated among
the least developed in the region.

Mr Nkansah said the assembly has made health,
education and security, priority.

He said being a cocoa growing district with many
settlements, which are far apart, providing the
people with their fair share of development
projects, is proving to be difficult.

The bad nature of the road network is also
compounding the problem.

Mr Nkansah said the assembly has already taken
steps to fix some of the deteriorated roads.

Source - GNA

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