The Office of
the Administrator-General (OAG) has since August this year, been conducting
series of regional orientation workshops for the six newly created regions on
the preparation and maintenance of Asset Registers for government/state assets
and properties.
It said they formed part of the OAG’s planned
activities for 2019, key objective of the workshops was to build capacities of
participants to prepare proper Inventory and Assets Registers of all state
assets and properties vested in the care of, and/or use by, public officers of
new regions.
The OAS noted that fixed assets remained the
biggest portion of government’s material resources and also the largest
component of government expenditure every year.
It said
participants were drawn from the Fixed Assets Coordinating Units of the
assemblies whose periodic submissions were being collated for the National
Register of State Assets and Properties.
A statement signed and issued by Daniel Binful,
Acting Public Affairs Officer, OAG, said the six new regions, Western North,
Ahafo, Bono East, Oti, Savanna and North East were created in February 2019 by
Constitutional Instrument (CI) 113 out of the then existing 10 regions.
It said following that, the government allocated
various assets and properties to establish Regional Coordinating Councils
(RCCs) in order to facilitate governance in the metropolitan, municipal and district
assemblies that fall under the respective operational areas.
The statement
said regional ministers and regional coordinating directors of new regions have
been collaborating with the Administrator-General to stress the importance of
the exercise, demonstrated interest by charging their officers to ensure
prescribed processes were meticulously followed with assemblies compliant with
related regulations.
“Collective efforts are yielding positive
and encouraging results with data collated using data template provided by the
OAG. Plans are in place to extend orientation workshop to cover all 16 regions
by end of December 2019 since ownership of some state assets have become key
causes of avoidable rancour amongst political actors.
“To
facilitate peaceful transitional processes, the OAG is determined to ensure
state assets and properties are properly accounted for by responsible public
officers in conformity with prescribed format and standards developed, statutory
body, Presidential (Transition) 2012, Act 845 to manage smooth transfer of
reigns of democratic governance from one administration to another. -gna.org
