Adentan Municipal Assembly achieves 97.5 per cent target in 2015
The Adentan Municipal Assembly was able to realise GH¢4, 6613,707.96 in 2015, representing 97.5 per cent from its internally generated fund.
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The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Benjamin B. Angenu, who announced this, said but for the staff of the assembly implicated in siphoning revenues leading to their arrest, the assembly would have mobilised its target of GH¢4,773,707.96 and over.
He told journalists that the three officials of the assembly implicated in the misappropriation of funds were apprehended and two of them had already refunded their money, while the other who could not refund the money had been handed over to the police.
Media interaction
Mr Angenu, who announced this when he hosted some journalists to outline his development agenda of the assembly for 2016, described 2015 as “a good one in terms of revenue mobilisation”.
The event brought together some management staff of the assembly to support the MCE to explain what the assembly did the previous year and what it plans to do this year.
Mr Angenu said the assembly appreciated what the media had done over the years by projecting it and also keeping it on its toes, which contributed to the achievements the assembly chalked up in 2015.
Challenges
Mr Angenu said the major challenge facing the assembly in mobilising revenue was the inability of its officers to get property owners to pay their rates adding that the assembly had created a website to enable such people to make payment online.
He said another means adopted by the officers was that they had decided to visit such properties on weekends and was hopeful that such measures would help rake in more revenue for more development purposes.
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Touching on other projects, Mr Angenu announced that a polyclinic at Ogbojo to expand health delivery services within the municipality had been completed awaiting furnishing and inauguration.
Security
On security, he said the assembly continued to support the security services, especially the police, to protect residents to freely go about their daily activities without fear of attacks.
Mr Angenu said the assembly had procured 10 new lorry tyres for the police and 950 street lights to lighten up the place to prevent crime.
Courts
He said the assembly inaugurated a magistrate’s court last year to speed up the administration of justice, “since all cases within the municipality were heard at the Madina Circuit Court and that sometimes delayed the hearing of cases”.
Mr Angenu announced that the assembly was in the process of constructing a modern court complex to house a magistrate’s, circuit and high courts to further improve the dispensation of justice within the assembly.
Roads
The MCE said the major challenge for the assembly was road network, explaining that because the assembly was growing with new settlements, there was the need for more roads to be constructed.
He said some of the roads leading to the new settlements were unmotorable and that the assembly was working hard to make such roads motorable, citing the road leading to the newly constructed polyclinic at Ogbojo as one of the roads awarded on contract.
Touching on water, Mr Angenu said the Ghana Water Company Limited office in the assembly was liaising with resident associations to provide them with potable water.
He said currently, the company was not pumping the 40 million gallons a day because there were a number of communities yet to be connected.