Decentralise education, health and water agencies — Osagyefo Amoatia
The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Oforipanin II, has called on the government to decentralise education, health and water for people at the local level to manage their own resources and be involved in making their own decisions.
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He said ministries needed to be relocated to the regions so that government business would be closer to the people.
He wondered why the Ministry of Lands and Forestry, for example, must be located in Accra where there were no forests.
Osagyefo Amoatia Oforipanin made the call when an 11-member delegation from the Ghana International Bank on a need assessment visit to some parts of the Eastern Region paid a courtesy call on him at his palace in Kyebi.
According him, district chief executives must be elected by the people so that they will be accountable to them. In that way the people at the local level will be closer to lodge complaints when necessary.
He said African leaders needed to sacrifice and do more for their people to lift them from poverty.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana International Bank, Mr Joe Mensah, who was the leader of the delegation, said as part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility, it had set aside one per cent of its pre-tax profit to support community-based initiatives in health, education and poverty reduction.
He said to administer the fund, the bank had formed a trust known as the Ghana International Foundation, which has a four-member trustee to run its affairs.
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According to him, their visit to the region was to assess the need of the people and to also find out what use the fund allocated for development projects had been put to.
Some of the places visited by the delegation were the Adeiso Health Centre and Kyebi School for the Deaf, where the bank has provided a gas station, a corn mill, and classroom furniture and renovated some classroom blocks.