William N. Jalulah
9 November 2009
Bolgatanga — A RETIRED Educationist, Mr. Robert Ajene says unless a composite budget is implemented to do away with the conventional processes that decentralized government departments and agencies go through before their budgets are approved, Ghana's economy would never flourish.
He observed that decentralization without management would stifle the growth of the economy.
Mr. Ajene, who made the observation on Thursday at the Upper East Regional Consultation Forum on Ghana's decentralization in Bolgatanga, said a lot has been said about decentralization in the country since its inception some 20 years ago, but much has not been done to deal with its bottlenecks.
According to him, it was not necessary for heads of District and Municipal assemblies, education, agriculture and other government agencies to continue to trace their budgets to central government, where the processes are so cumbersome. The decentralization and the assembly system of local governance were meant to remove all the bottlenecks that impede development at the grassroots levels.
Mr. Ajene, therefore, appealed to the Minister of Local Government, Mr. Joseph Yiele Chiereh, who was at the forum to ensure that a composite budget was put in place so as to encourage prudent spending.
In a quick response, the sector Minister stated that government's commitment was to ensure that common fund for the assemblies are transferred to them without the involvement of Members of Parliament, and he was working at ensuring that a composite budget was implemented.
He welcomed a suggestion by one of the participants at the forum that District Chief Executives should be selected from among the assembly members from the assemblies, and said it would help address human resource issues at the assemblies, and the level of participation of people at the assembly level.
He said if the possibility of getting DCEs from the assemblies was considered, many more people would want to become assembly members. This, he hoped would bring out the quality of people from the assemblies to propel their developments.
Mr. Yiele Chireh said a committee has finished its work on LI 1931 and would soon be laid in parliament so that all civil servants working with the coordinating councils and the assemblies would be made to properly belong to the local government service, so that they would eventually be controlled by the assemblies.
The Minister congratulated the participants for their mature presentations and suggestions, and gave the assurance that their inputs would be considered in the planning of the local governance structure.
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