Awutu-Senya adopts measures to increase revenue generation

The Awutu-Senya District Assembly has put in measures to ensure an increase in revenue generation, Mr Sampson Abbey Armah, District Chief Executive (DCE), has said.

The measures include formation of District Revenue Task Force to prosecute defaulters, strengthening the Area/Urban Councils to collect ceded items and identify new sources of revenue.

Mr Armah, who said this at the Assembly’s meeting at Awutu Beraku, therefore, urged assembly members, departments and various organizations to augment the efforts of revenue collection to enable the Assembly to generate enough funds to support developmental projects.

He said at the end of the first quarter this year, the internally generated revenue stood at 77,817.95 Ghana cedis, representing 71.07 per cent of the 109, 492.56 Ghana cedis budgeted for the period.

The DCE added that the total expenditure for the period was 74,960 Ghana cedis, which represents 68.483 per cent of the estimated expenditure of 109,467.54 Ghana cedis.

Mr Armah said the government, through the Assembly, had undertaken a number of development projects from 2009 to date.

He said the Assembly constructed an area council office at Awutu Beraku at the cost of 55,512.99 Ghana cedis and completed a six-unit classroom block at Awutu Bontrase, costing 79,698.15 Ghana cedis.

It also constructed a dining hall at Senya Senior High and a 10-unit classroom pavilion at Bawjiase Senior High at the cost of 90,717.27 Ghana cedis and 219,106.65 Ghana cedis respectively, he said.

Mr Armah said the district had benefited from the construction of 10 boreholes under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project.

Under the same programme, according to him, five institutional latrines are to be constructed in various schools in the district.