Mr Joseph Amoah, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Shama District in the Western Region has lamented that chieftaincy disputes and abandoning of sites or not reporting to sites by contractors is a major challenge hampering growth and development in the district.
Against this background, he has made a passionate appeal to the Western Regional House of Chiefs (RHOC) and the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) respectively to find lasting solutions to the menace for accelerated growth.
He also mentioned clay mining which posed a danger in the District as a challenge and called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Minerals Commission (MC) to bring the perpetrators under control.
Mr Amoah made the remark at a one-day joint meeting of Heads of Department (HODs) of the Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC) and Heads of other Public Sector Institutions in Takoradi.
He further disclosed that the Inchaban Barrier posed traffic and security threats and would be relocated to Assorkor, and therefore called on the Ghana Highway Authority to provide ramps and shelter for the security personnel who would be mounting the post.
Madam Gifty Eugenia Kusi, Deputy Western Regional Minister stressed that the agenda of the Government remains a “Ghana Beyond Aid”, job creation and prosperity for all and for that matter all Heads of Public Institutions must share in this vision and deploy all expertise and competencies to actualize the vision.
She therefore tasked the HODs to consider the need to deepen its existing collaboration with other institutions and the private sector as key and very crucial to growth and development.
She announced that the WRCC had its share of the manpower needs of the MMDAs following the recruitment of officers by the Office of the Head of Local Government Service.
She added that a total of 172 made up of 92 males and 80 females from the various classes such as administrative, engineering, development planning and physical planning, etc were re-posted to the 14 MMDAs by the WRCC.
Madam Kusi assured that the mandate of coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of MDAs, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and the non-state actors in the region will be pursued vigorously in order to engender local economic development going into 2021.
Presentations in respect of mandate, functions, major achievements, challenges and outlook for 2021 plus any other relevant information were made by the Sekondi-Takoradi chamber of commerce and Industry (STCCI), Minerals Commission (MC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Story: Seth Ameyaw Danquah
