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Kufuor Scholars Programme will aid revenue mobilization-MCE

All thirty members of the Kufuor Scholars Class of 2021 have visited the Mampong Municipal Assembly to help gather data on various erected billboards as part of the scholars’ two-week initiation leadership camp.

Date Created : 2/23/2022 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Susana Danso/Ghanadistricts.com

The billboard identification and counting exercise would provide the assembly with data on advertising billboards and signposts erected along the principal streets of the municipality, informs the assembly of possible tax revenue generating spots, widen the income base of the Assembly and increase Internally Generated Funds for developmental projects.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Assembly, Mr. Thomas Appiah Kubi commended members of the Kufuor Scholars Program for supporting the Assembly’s revenue drive and urged them to ensure that the policies and programs they roll out as leaders in future would not only improve the lives of residents in urban areas but rural dwellers as well.

He also urged the scholars to prioritize the interest of rural dwellers when they become leaders in future. “This foundation is building you practically to become fully fledged leaders. One day if God should help you become a president, you would remember you went to Mampong and these are the areas that I passed and the difficulties that they are facing.

Most leaders living in the city do not understand the problems in rural areas and make rules, laws and policies that don’t factor in these people,” he said.

The Chief Executive Officer of the John A. Kufuor Foundation, Prof. Baffour Agyemang – Duah expressed confidence that, the experience will enable scholars to appreciate life and have reasons to be responsible leaders in the future.

He said the camp was borne out of the conscious dream and efforts of the former President John Agyekum Kufuor to let young scholars experience life outside the main cities of Kumasi and Accra.

The CEO added that the community training would allow the scholars to bond and be active members of their communities, as well as aspire to have a lasting positive impact on deprived societies and the country at large.