The Techiman North District Assembly (TNDA) in the Brong Ahafo Region has held its second ordinary meeting of the second session of the Assembly at Tuobodom, the district capital, to strategise plans aimed at bringing more development to the area and improving the quality and standard of living of the people in the district.

The meeting was historic, as it was the first meeting for the first substantive District Chief Executive (DCE) for the nascent District Assembly.

Mr Anthony Kwaku Marnu, the DCE ofthe Assembly in his welcome address expressed profound gratitude to the Assembly Members for reposing their confidence in him by voting massively to endorse him as the first substantive DCE for the Assembly.

Mr Marnu who is a retired educationist and two times presiding member for the then Techiman District Assembly assured the Assembly members that he would share his experience with them to bring the needed development into the District.

Touching on development issues, Mr Anthony said his administration would pursue vigorously the “Better Ghana Agenda” of the Government under the three thematic areas of “Investing in People, Economic and Infrastructural Development and Good Governance.

The Assembly, he said as an important stakeholder was deeply committed to implementing the goals of the “Better Ghana Agenda” by continuously reviewing the development programmes and taking into consideration the extent to which they were addressing the real needs of the people.

In pursuit of the above policy, the DCE said the responsibility for development had been ceded to the Assemblies with the support of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) and the District Development Fund (DDF) among others. He added that for this reason, the Techiman North District Assembly in 2011 received GH₵278, 544.00, made up of GH₵236, 554.00 in respect of an Investment Grant and a capacity Building Grant of GH₵41, 990.00.

On the Functional Organisation Assessment Tool (FOAT), the DCE was happy to announce that the Assembly scored 93%. He was grateful to management and staff of the Assembly for their hard work and dedication and urged them to work harder to sustain the level of performance and even improve upon it in the coming years.

 ISD