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WAEMA takes legal action against revenue defaulting companies, sanitation offender

Wassa Amenfi East Municipal Assembly has taken legal action against 17 revenue defaulting companies and entities for failure to pay their Business Operating Permits and 46 sanitation offenders for failure to keep their surroundings clean.

Date Created : 5/31/2019 2:54:06 AM : Story Author : ISD

This was contained in an executive report read by the Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Helena Appiah at the General Assembly Meeting held on Thursday, April, 4 2019.

The Municipal Chief Executive said the legal measure against the revenue defaulting companies and entities was part of the Assembly’s efforts to improve its Internally Generated Fund and that has resulted in the payment of GH¢20,900.00 from four companies while the others were yet to make payment.

She added that the Assembly could not get the share of the fines paid by the sanitation offenders to the court because it had no bye laws to prosecute them and there was the need to expedite action on the drafted Assembly bye laws so that part of the fines could be ceded to it based on the bye laws.

She informed assembly members that while 100 bags of seed maize and Rice each were received for 3,612 farmers under the Planting for Food and Jobs and 250 bags of Seed Rice also received for 1,029 farmers under the Special Rice programme, 120,000 cocoa seedlings had been raised by the department of agriculture for distribution to farmers under the Producing for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme in the municipality.

The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme had also expanded with beneficiary households increased from 506 to 629 resulting in a corresponding increase in disbursement from GH¢33,766.00 to GH¢45,976.00

She said preparations were on course for the 2,660 Basic Education Certificate Examination candidates in both public and private schools who had registered to write the examination in ten centers in the municipality.

The Municipal Chief Executive indicated that although the crime rate was on ascendancy, the security situation in the municipality was safe for the public to go about their daily activities and urged the police to intensify efforts to curb crime.