The Adaklu District Assembly as at August, this year generated only 20,872.40 Ghana Cedis internally, representing 27.14 per cent of the targeted 76,899.40 Ghana Cedis.

Total cash inflow for the same period, including the District Assembly’s Common Fund was 319,103.40 Ghana Cedis.

Projected total revenue for the district for the year is 2,462,230.13 Ghana Cedis.

The district was carved out of the then Adaklu Anyigbe District in 2012, inaugurated in June the same year, but was without a District Chief Executive (DCE) due to internal wrangling, until Mr. Emmanuel Sky Ganaku was endorsed in July, this year.

Mr. Ganaku, who was delivering his session address at the second ordinary meeting of the third session of the assembly at Adaklu-Waya on Thursday, described revenue generated by the Assembly as woefully inadequate.

He said the Assembly expended an amount of 313,103.40 Ghana cedis during the same period.

He said the Assembly would adopt measures including resourcing of Area Councils, periodic publishing of revenue collections, sanctions and reward scheme for revenue collectors to maximize revenue mobilization.

On education, Mr. Ganaku said though education was the greatest tool to fight poverty, ignorance, disease and social injustice, the 2013 District Profile presented a rather huge education input gap and a plethora of challenges for the district.

He mentioned inadequate classrooms and ancillary facilities, as well as poor teacher and parental commitment as some of the challenges.

Mr. Ganaku said the Assembly would among other measures adopt “sponsorship and bonding programmes” to increase the trained- teacher-pupil ratio and also vigorously tackle the school infrastructure deficit to improve education delivery in the district.

He said the Assembly would embark on an accelerated agricultural modernization and sustainable natural resource management programme, adding, “we will explore strategies to promote commercial agriculture using environmentally friendly technologies and also undertake agro-based industrial expansion in the district”.  

Mr. Ganaku bemoaned the lack of health facilities and professionals in the district.

The DCE said the district had only one physician assistant and two midwives.

He said the Assembly was currently lobbying government and other development partners for a district hospital.

Mr. Ganaku hinted that the Assembly was in the process of acquiring a 50-acre land to construct a multi-purpose office complex.

He appealed to the assembly members to work “in partnership and not in partisanship to paddle the district to its prosperity destination”.

GNA