Offinso Municipal Assembly embarks on innovative initiative
The Offinso Municipal Assembly is embarking on an innovative community development agenda dubbed: "Offinso Municipal Public-Private Partnership Agenda" (OMPPPA), a bottom-up community development initiative meant to transform the municipality into a preferred investment destination where there would be unlimited opportunities for jobs and wealth creation for the people.
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The Municipal Chief Executive, Baafuor Kese-Amankwa, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said such initiative would seek to create a novel pro-poor investment regime (PPIR) tailored to the needs and capacities of local investors to accelerate sustainable local economic development (LED).
He noted that, in such a regime, the OMPPA would set up a private financial board, (non-partisan), which would sensitise local investors, especially farmers, and provide training, among others to enable them to be good borrowers and also provide them with a start-up.
The financial board would also arrange for an organisation to purchase produce, with the assembly being the facilitator.
He said the assembly would arrange for land for the beneficiaries who would go into farming, without paying anything to the landowner, and, therefore, the landowner would become part of the project so that after declaring profit, a percentage would be given to the owner as equity share.
Baafuor Kese-Amankwa noted that local economic development was about development-sustainability, systematic- development and equitable development.
Baafuor Kese-Amankwa expressed his happiness about the members embracing the OMPPPA concept which, he stressed, when implemented, would contribute to the process of transforming the municipality into the assembly's envisaged 'model municipality' where poverty, hunger, unemployment, disease, ignorance, illiteracy and squalor would be considerably reduced.
Mr Kese-Amankwa also expressed the hope that the prevailing harmony within the municipality would be sustained.
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He announced that the official launch of OMPPPA would be held at the end of February this year.
He mentioned that by the end of the year, almost all investment potentials in all sectors of the economy in the municipality would be identified, analysed and documented by investment consultants.
That, he said, included four potential tourist sites at Anyinasuso Fish Sanctuary, Bohene (“stone chief”) at Twumasen, water falls at Asuboi and a virgin forest at Abofour.