Boundary disputes affecting devt in Gomoa East District - DCE
The Gomoa East District Chief Executive, Mr Isaac Kingsley Ahunu-Armah, has expressed concern about the numerous boundary disputes with neighbouring districts, which is affecting the efficient and effective administration of the district assembly.
The district shares boundaries with Agona West, Effutu Municipal, Gomoa West and Awutu Senya districts respectively.
Mr Ahunu-Armah, who expressed the concern while addressing the first ordinary meeting of the fourth session of the sixth assembly of the Gomoa East District Assembly, said the current development was posing a serious challenge and making it difficult to effectively and efficiently administer the district.
He noted that the disputes were hampering the efforts of the assembly to deliver services, especially to the people in the district.
He said a cause of the boundary disputes was the use of electoral areas as the criteria for the creation of new districts, and therefore called on the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to take steps to resolve these disputes across the country to promote peace and development.
He suggested to the Ministry to use permanent features such as rivers and roads to determine boundaries instead of electoral areas to avoid conflicts.
He indicated that the assembly projected GH¢219, 080.00 as internally generated funds (IGF) for 2013 but as of the end of the year, the actual amount collected was GH¢253, 637.79, representing 115.77 per cent.
He explained that per the amount collected, the district’s economy improved significantly during the period under review as compared to the previous year since the IGF realised in 2013 exceeded that of 2012 by 19.4 per cent.
He added that the assembly had projected a total of GH¢345, 000.00 to be collected from all revenue sources for this year but as of March 2014, the assembly had collected GH¢75, 660.98, representing 22 per cent of the amount projected for the period.
He stressed that with the measures put in place by management, the assembly was hopeful that by the end of the year, it would exceed the target for the year.
The district chief executive stated that several projects were going on in the district and they were at various stages of completion.
Notable among them were a police station at Asebu-Pomadze, the construction of a market at Gomoa Nyanyano, a fence wall and pavement at Nyanyano Cold Store, ICT and post office at Gomoa Afransi and institutional latrines at Achiase D/A, Methodist, Adabra A.M.E. Zion and Obuasi Presby Schools respectively.
He indicated further that waste management was becoming a challenge to the assembly since the assembly had no final disposal site for waste.
He, therefore, urged the assembly members to liaise with chiefs in their various electoral areas to enable the assembly to acquire a suitable disposal site to improve sanitation in the district.
