Volta Region completes street-naming project
Barely two weeks from now, the September deadline given by President John Dramani Mahama to all Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA’s) to name streets and number properties would expire.
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A visit to some MMDAs in the Volta Region by the Ghana News Agency indicated smooth, progressive and time bound activities in progress to meet the deadline.
The exercise is intended to help improve and increase revenue generation of the assemblies to limit their dependency on government subventions for development projects.
It would also shape infrastructural planning to help prevent unnecessary flooding and protect lives and property.
Mrs Fafa Afua Adinyira, Ho Municipal Chief Executive, told the GNA that the major challenge faced by the assembly was the names that came up for the exercise.
She said there were many objections by the Asogli Traditional Council to the names suggested by many of the communities.
Mrs Adinyira said the exercise was not just putting in place signages for directions but also the collection and management of data.
Mr Felix Selorame, Municipal Planning Officer, said though the assembly had not finished the exercise, the amount of work done so far had increased the revenue of the assembly.
He said the increment was from the digitisation done by the assembly to fish out properties which were engaged in property tax fraud.
Mr Selorame said the exercise had also helped the assembly to produce an infrastructural development map that revealed what the municipality lacked.
He said the municipality had been zone into 17 and “so far, the assembly has increased revenue generation in all the zones”.
At Denu and Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality, Mr Pascal Lamptey, Municipal Chief Executive, said the exercise was appreciated by the people.
He said it had become an eye opening exercise, directing people to places.