The National Dean of Presiding Members, Joseph Korto, has charged his colleague Presiding Members to place premium on education to increase Internally Generated Funds of the Assemblies to transform communities.
“As education is the bedrock of growth and development and the only weapon that society can use to level up, I suggest we intensify education in our various metropolitan, municipal and districts to fight poverty, squalor and disease so as to improve livelihoods,” he implored.
Mr Korto appealed to members of the Assemblies to offer their regional ministers maximum support and assist to achieve revenue, health, water and sanitation goals to accelerate the growth and development of communities.
Making the call at the conference of the Greater Accra Regional Dean of Presiding Members, he lauded the efforts of Henry Quartey, the Greater Accra Regional Minister for his innovations in keeping the city clean and appealed to his colleagues to offer the Minister maximum support and assistance to achieve health and sanitation goals.
It brought together all the Presiding Members of the region to deliberate on issues on security, water, sanitation, health, revenue generation, good governance and development and also serve as a training ground for members to strategise towards the growth and development of the region.
Mr Korto, who is the Greater Accra Regional Dean of Presiding Members, tasked his colleagues to ensure “sanitation and waste management also form an integral part of our growth and development agenda to reduce poverty, disease and squalor in communities and take a cue from Mr Quartey’s operation clean your frontage and the demolition of unauthorised structures on water ways, among many others which cannot yield positive impact without the support and assistance of the Assemblies”.
He described the regional minister as a courageous leader with high level of intelligence who needed their assistance and support for the Greater Accra Region to work and appealed to the Executive and Legislative arms of government to take steps to improve the conditions of service of members across the country.
Dr Nana Arthur, Head of Local Government Service, called on the Presiding Members to be innovative towards growth and development of Assemblies to avoid awarding contracts that could not receive adequate funding and putting up many uncompleted buildings which were an eye sore in communities. -GNA
