THE General Secretary of the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG), Alhaji I.M. Sheriff, has advised district assemblies to recognise communities as partners in development.
He said district assemblies must discuss development issues dispassionately with communities in order to accelerate the decentralisation process.
Alhaji Sheriff said this when he addressed the Volta Regional delegates’ conference of NALAG in Ho at the weekend.
He promised that NALAG would sustain its cooperation with the central government so that things that were lacking in the assemblies were provided, adding that facilities that would support the assemblies were likely to delay without the needed cooperation.
Alhaji Sheriff called for research, capacity building and desired linkages between district and municipal assemblies with international sister relations with the view to strengthening international friendship.
In an address, the interim President and the Volta Regional representative on the NALAG council, Mr Isaac Kwasi Kodobisah, said the council had been able to make gains within two months of its existence.
These include the appointment of a General Secretary as the executive administrator and the concrete move towards the procurement of motorbikes for presiding and assembly members to facilitate their movement in their electoral areas.
Others are soliciting of funds for the completion of a five-storey office complex at Okponglo in Accra, asking members to support the idea of further deductions from their common fund to enable them to complete the project on time.
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