The Woraworahene, Dasebre Asare Baah III, has called on the Government to institute a probe into the expenditure of the Biakoye District Assembly in order to bring to book those who misused the district assembly’s common fund allocated to the non-functional district.
He said available information indicated that the new district’s share of the District Assemblies Common fund had been spent by the functionaries of the previous Government although the district assembly never functioned.
Daasebre Asare Baah made the call in a speech he delivered on the theme: “A decade of peace, cultural revival and development” at a durbar to climax the 10th Akwantutenten festival celebration of the people of Worawora last weekend.
He said it was unfortunate that the issue of where the capital of the new district should be sited was creating a problem for Biakoye, adding that the previous government created a district all right, but announced the capital at a different location without any prior consultation with the chiefs in the new district.
He said the action was contrary to the wishes of five paramount chiefs in the area, who in the year 2000 sent a petition to the then government to create the Biakoye District out of the Jasikan District and came to a consensus that should the district be created, the district capital should be at Worawora.
Daasebre Asare Baah, therefore, implored President John Atta Mills to use his good offices to resolve the Biakoye issue as majority of the people in the district approved of Worawora as the proposed capital.
Touching on the issue, the Volta Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Amenowode, pleaded with all stakeholders, especially chiefs and elders of the land to reflect on the rather unfortunate situation that the district assembly was not functioning.
He said the harm the delay in inaugurating the assembly was doing to the development agenda of the area was enormous, and that, “it is only when we have a functioning district and district chief executive in office that the utilisation of resources for the accelerated development of your area would begin”.
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