ASSEMBLY PROVIDES MOTORBIKES TO 4 INSTITUTIONS (PAGE 20, FEB 5, 2010)

THE Kpando District Assembly has provided 10 motorbikes to four institutions with the view to strengthening their capacity to deliver their mandatory services to the people in the fields of education, decentralisation and revenue.
Seven of the motorbikes were given to the Ghana Education Service (GES) and one each to the Kpando Urban Council, Aveme Area Council and the revenue office of the district assembly.
Making the presentation, the Kpando District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Francis Komla Ganyaglo, said the assembly decided to provide the motorbikes through its district development facility to ensure that supervision,as well as monitoring of schools, would be effective.
He said hitherto poor supervision had contributed to poor performance by pupils of junior high schools (JHS) at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Mr Ganyaglo expressed the hope that the huge investment would not be in vain.
The DCE said the donation to urban and area councils was aimed at strengthening the substructures of the district assembly in consonance with the policy to devolve power to the grass roots for effective administration at the local level.
He, therefore, said the motorbikes would enable the two substructures to carry out their daily administrative duties without much difficulty, adding that the effective use of the motorbikes would encourage the assembly to replicate the gesture to other sub-structures.
On revenue collection, the DCE said inadequate logistics for the revenue office for effective and random supervision of revenue collectors was a source of worry to the assembly.
He expressed the hope that the negative trend would end after the presentation of a motor-bike to the revenue office.
“May I entreat you to justify this investment by increasing our local revenue base for development projects to be implemented for the benefit of our people,” Mr Ganyaglo said.
He charged the beneficiaries to take proper care of them so that they would serve as an incentive to the assembly to seriously scale-up the donation of that magnitude to other institutions in the district.