North Dayi Assembly to form think tank
The North Dayi District Assembly is to constitute a think tank to offer relevant advice towards the socio-economic development of the district.
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Membership of the group will be made up of four representatives from each of the nine traditional councils in the district (to be made up of men and women who are experienced and competent in socio-economic development).
According to the North Dayi District Chief Executive, Mr Stephen Timinka, the think tank body will steer the broad development agenda of the district and also serve as an advisory body on policies and programmes.
He said they would oversee the location of projects in the district to avoid any form of inter-village rivalry.
Mr Timinka announced this when he addressed the second ordinary meeting of the second session of the assembly at Anfoega-Akukome.
He said the district assembly had made significant strides in the collection of internally generated funds, adding that within eight months after inauguration, the assembly had been able to mobilise a total of GHc 56,654 out of GHc64, 566.66 earmarked.
The DCE said the net amount released to the assembly under the District Assembly Common Fund was GHc128,928. 67 for the third quarter and GHc150, 261.65 for the fourth quarter for last year.
He, however, said the first, second and third quarters share of DACF of both the assembly and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the current year have still not been released.
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Mr Timinka also disclosed that the district assembly received the first tranche of 2011 of the District Development Fund (DDF) in 2014 and that GHc45,000 was allocated for capacity building and GHc152,977 for investment, with the assurance that the assembly had qualified for future remittances of DDF because it had been rated 92 per cent under the FOAT assessment.
He therefore disclosed that the DDF had been used to procure office equipment and street naming property and public addressing equipment.
He said a draft document of District Medium-Term Development Plan (DMTDP) was ready after engagements with various stakeholders and that it would be forwarded to the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) through the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC).
Mr Timinka announced that five projects have been completed and pending inauguration, and they included a six-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities at Anfoega-Bume, a new lorry park at Vakpo, rehabilitation of health centres at Wusuta and Aveme Danyigba, an information centre at Botoku and Aveme and a health centre and nurses quarters at Jordan-nu and Aneta.
In a welcome address, the Presiding Member of the assembly, Mr Daniel Amedior, said the achievement on the significant improvement in Internally Generated Funds (IGF) was through the initiative to widen the tax net, and urged assembly members to support all efforts to put the assembly on a good and sound footing.