On Wednesday October 19, 2022, the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) held their annual town hall meeting dubbed: “Inclusive planning and budgeting; sustaining stakeholder’s participation in development.
The meeting was held in fulfilment of the provisions in the 1992 constitution of the republic of Ghana, the Local Governance Act 2016, Act 936, the National Development Planning (Systems) Act 1994 (Act 480), the National Development Planning (Systems) Regulations, 2016 (LI 2232), the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) and other pieces of legislation.
In his speech, he made mention of the fact that, irrespective of the twin effect of Covid-19 and the Russian-Ukraine war on the economy of Ghana, the La Dade-kotopon Municipal Assembly, was able to exceed its Internally Generated Fund (IGF) target for the year 2021. This helped the Assembly to undertake some important developmental projects.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the La Dade-kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), Hon. Solomon Kotey Nikoi delivered a welcome address on the occasion and made a presentation of the 2023 annual action plan and composite budget.
Developmental projects like;
- Classroom blocks for six schools in the municipality
- Fencing of the La Royal Cemetery and Rangoon Camp 1&2 primary school.
- Ongoing drain projects, road sealing, pothole patching, speed humps, metal gratings and asphalting.
- Construction of the residential accommodation of the Municipal Chief Executive has also been completed and in use.
Based on education, according to the MCE, part of the IGF has also been used to;
- Cater for the Ghana School Feeding Programme and about 40 schools in the Municipality are beneficiaries.
- Distribute free textbooks and capitation grants to both SHSs’ and basic schools
- Distribute over 3000 dual and mono desks to needy schools
- Cater for some costs that are because of the free SHS policy.
- Distribute 3,500 mathematical set to BECE candidates and 600 bottles of water to refresh them as they write their final examinations
He said the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) under LaDMA has rolled out programmes that aimed at reviving ill businesses and the establishment of new ones, through free business counselling for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s)
He mentioned that the Assembly has distributed 234 fall army worms agrochemicals to 82 farmers, provided weekly extension services, and trained farmers in green house farming, vegetable production in containers and open field irrigation under the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ)
Hon. Solomon Kotey Nikio appealed to the citizenry to pay their bills to enable the assembly to bring development to their doorsteps.