Nandom Assembly to improve education
Nandom District Assembly in the Upper West Region has adopted a four-point resolution to tackle education and infrastructural development in the district.
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The Nandom District Chief Executive, Mr Cuthbert Baba Kuupiel, announced the resolution at this year’s first ordinary meeting of the assembly.
Among the four-point resolution was a call on the assembly to ensure that the district had a comprehensive planning scheme by September this year and adopt measures to check people who won sand along roads, river banks and culverts and sanction them severely to serve as a deterrent to others. The assembly further resolved to ensure that pupils who failed to make it to the senior high school (SHS) would be organised and supported under the Rural Enterprise Programme to acquire skills. Also, through the District Education Directorate, head teachers would submit quarterly reports on their respective communities’ contribution to the development of education.
Mr Kuupiel said it was important to take appropriate measures to tackle specific challenges that affected the district in order to help improve the social and general well-being of the people.
Addressing assembly members, the DCE said the district realised GH¢67,685.60 as internally generated funds, which were about 91.48 per cent of the assembly’s target of GH¢73,982.41 for the year ending December 2013.
He said the assembly had projected to raise GH¢90,234.10 for the current year. He indicated that as of the close of March 2014, it had already collected GH¢ 24,360.50, representing 27 per cent of the target.
He charged traditional rulers and assembly members “to support the secretariat to mobilise and monitor revenue generation and collection so that the assembly can achieve revenue targets in support of development programmes for the district,” stressing that “anything short of this will have adverse effect on the growth of the district.”
“I wish to also challenge the town and area councils to do everything possible to collect revenue for the assembly, focusing particularly on basic , bicycle , motorbike, car and cattle rates from all the communities in your councils,” he stated.
He maintained that the monthly clean-up exercise across the entire district was one important community programme in the area. He emphasised that since February this year the district had also been put on the sustainable rural water and sanitation project under which 50 boreholes would be drilled in various communities across the district.
“The Ko, Guo, Tuopari and Simuopare communities are also to benefit from the Small Town Water Systems project. Additionally, 10 institutional toilet facilities will also be provided to some selected schools in the district between now and 2015,” Mr Kuupiel said.
“The beneficiary schools include the English Arabic Primary, St Paul Primary, St Anthony Primary in Brutu, Kogle Primary and Ko ‘A’ Primary schools.
“When completed, they will make considerable impact on the socio–economic conditions of our people,” he added.