Adansi West Assembly to improve its revenue

The Adansi West District Assembly will as from the end of June, this year, improve its revenue collection machinery to collect more revenue.

Measures put in place to achieve this include doing away with non-performing collectors as well as employing the district GPRTU personnel as revenue collection agents at the lorry parks.

Mr Joseph Kwadwo Boampong, the District Chief Executive (DCE) who was addressing the Second Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly, said ''the end of the second quarter of 2003 has been set as the decision point to overhaul the revenue collection system of the Assembly.''

He said the assembly's performance in revenue collection for the first quarter of the year ''was generally poor especially in the areas of rates and investments.''

Out of estimated revenue of 576.2 million cedis for the first quarter the assembly collected 247.5 million cedis, representing 43 percent.

Mr Boampong told the Assembly that the new formula for the disbursement of the District Assemblies' Common Fund is '' anti-urban'' and, therefore, the need for the assembly to raise its revenue base.

The Presiding Member, Nana Stephen Kwarteng, called on the assembly members to approach their duties on non-partisan basis for the public to cooperate with them.