THE District Chief Executive (DCE) for Central Gonja, Mr Salisu Issifu Be-Awuribe has charged newly inaugurated assembly members to monitor feedback from their communities on the implementation of projects by the government.
According to him, the needs of communities keep changing with time and therefore it was crucial for the assembly to know if these projects were indeed addressing the development needs of the people at a particular time.
Mr Be-Awuribe made these remarks when he addressed the members of the newly constituted assembly for the Central Gonja district.
He said there was the need for the assembly members to adopt an effective and efficient methodology of reaching out to the people at the grassroots to explain government policies and programmes and monitor feedback.
Mr Be-Awuribe also tasked the assembly members to device effective community mobilizing skills to undertake community initiated projects without always looking up to the assembly.
In his estimation, not all development challenges at the local level could be addressed effectively by the assembly.
“I must also warn you that the position carries with it a huge challenges and burden, sacrifice and dedication, disappointment and frustrations insults and praises, suffering and little rewards especially the elected ones,” he further stated.
On the progress of development in the region, the DCE noted that the district had a huge natural and human resource potential, which is why the government intended transforming Buipe into the industrial hub of Northern Ghana.
He made mention of some gains that have been chalked in the district by the assembly in the areas of education, agriculture, health, Information Communication and Technology (ICT), youth employment and skills training.
He cited the revival of the cotton industry, which would involve farmers in the district and create new avenues of employment for the youth.
Mr Be-Awuribe said as part of efforts to open up the roads in the district, the assembly had acquired some heavy equipment that includes a motor grader and tipper truck.
“These set of equipment have enabled the assembly to open up the district to the satisfaction of many communities, but there is an urgent need for a bull dozer and wheel loader,” he indicated.
The DCE however cited some security challenges posed by the protracted Buipe chieftaincy dispute, highway robbery, land disputes and the conflicts between Fulani herdsmen and indigenes, and entreated the new assembly to work towards addressing these issues.
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