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Formulate strategies for effective resource mobilization – Assembly Members charged

Newly elected Assembly Members and Government Appointees in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra region were yesterday sworn-in, with a call on them to ensure the formulation and execution of programmes and strategies for the effective mobilization of resources for the overall development of the district.

Date Created : 1/24/2020 5:50:38 AM : Story Author : Emmanuel Frimpong/Ghanadistricts.com

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Coastal Development Authority, Mr Jerry Ahmed Shaib, who read a speech on behalf of President Akufo Addo, congratulated the newly elected members together with all government appointees who he said, now have the mandate to lead and steer affairs of the Assembly for the next four years.

He urged them to be always guided by the critical role the Assembly play in ensuring that government delivers on its promises to the ordinary Ghanaian people and therefore charged the District Chief Executive (DCE) together with the newly sworn-in members to advance the implementation of government coordinated programmes of economic and social development policies which started in 2017 to 2024.

According to him, Government has already launched and is pursuing a number of policies and programmes aimed at improving the welfare and wellbeing of the people, adding that a couple of such policies include the Free Senior High School policy, Planting for Food and Jobs, One District One Factory, Planting for Export and Development among others.

To complement this effort, he continued that, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has also formulated a rural development policy which provides the mechanism of a coordinated intervention, social services and agriculture, social services, industrialization, skill development to ensure transformative change in the lives of the rural people in the country.

He concluded by reminding them that they are being inaugurated at a time government through the Ministry of Local Government is putting in plans to improve Internally Generated fund (IGF) to anchor its transformation agenda.

On her part, District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area, Sarah Dugbakie Pobee expressed her delight to see the newly elected and appointed members of the assembly being sworn in to perform their core mandate, insisting that their absence created a vacuum which affected the developmental agenda of the district.

According to her, the Assembly is a system thus the absence of one part affects the others.

The DCE implored the new Assembly members to work selflessly and also remain devoted to their work to help develop the Ada East District and Ghana as a whole.