MP to move motion on NALAG expenditure
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lower West Akim, Madam Gifty Klenam, says she will move a motion in Parliament for a debate on the high expenditure of the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG).
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She said the financial strength of any organisation such as the NALAG depended on efficient acquisition and management of its resources.
Mad. Klenam said there were six metropolitan, 49 municipal and 161 district assemblies in the country whose ultimate goal was to fast-track socio-economic development under the decentralisation programme.
“It goes without saying that cutting down general expenses to the minimum will help the NALAG achieve its noble objectives,” she said.
Madam Klenam said during a heated debate on the NALAG’s funds and its high spending at the West Akim Municipal Assembly’s last session for 2013 held at Asamankese in the Eastern Region.
Mr Moses Timpo Ofori, Presiding Member (PM) of the assembly, had delivered a report on the NALAG’s conference held in November 2013 at Sunyani.
The 47-member assembly wanted Mr Ofori to describe in detail policies, procedures, rules and regulations in business correspondence, personnel and financial administration of the NALAG.
These included the NALAG’s supply of dairies, calendars and feeding fees for metropolitan, municipal and district assembly (MMDA) chief executives who attended the conference.
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The assembly described the prices NALAG quoted for motorbikes it bought for the assemblies as “cut-throat” and that the cost would be deducted from the District Assmblies’ Common Fund.
The assembly members opined that they were not happy with the “unsatisfactory report” on the NALAG’s uncontrolled expenditure and registered their dissatisfaction with the expenture of the association.
—GNA