Manya Krobo development plan fails

Odumase-Krobo (Eastern Region) 4th May ?99

A five-year development plan drawn by the Manya Krobo district assembly to guide it in its development programmes has failed to achieve its objectives.

The plan, which was drawn in 1996 "has serious gaps between what is on paper and what is actually happening on the ground", the presiding member, the Reverend E.D.S. Mate-Kodjo, said.

"There is a disparity between what is planned and what has been achieved'', he stressed.

At the first meeting of the second session of the assembly, at Odumase-Krobo, on Friday, Reverend Mate-Kodjo, said concerns expressed by assembly members on the development of their communities, prompted him to study the plan.

He therefore, called on the finance and administration communities of the assembly to review the plan to enable it achieve its goals.

The District Chief Executive, Captain (rtd) Henry Hammond, announced that a number of measures have been put in place to ensure effective revenue mobilisation in the district.