Kadjebi (O/R), Jan. 27, GNA – Kadjebi District Assembly in the Oti Region has organised a stakeholder engagement on the draft Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) with the electorates in the district.
The engagement was meant to validate the draft MTDP document based on their need assessment.
The MTDP document would be used for the periods 2022-2025 fiscal years Opening the programme,
Mr Wilson Agbanyo, Kadjebi District Chief Executive (DCE) said hitherto, the government undertakes projects in communities without their involvement, so community members sit aloof and adamant to question contractors when things go wrong.
Mr Agbanyo said it was against this backdrop that they were soliciting their views on the proposed projects to be executed.
He appealed to the participants to bring their views on board since that was the essence of local governance.
The DCE cautioned motor riders to be conscious when riding to avoid needless accidents in the district.
He opened up on the falling standards of education in the district, saying it was multifaceted and warned of its consequences.
Mr. Agbanyo said parents, teachers and students must be blamed for the educational crisis in the district; explaining that the only way to tackle this threat was to use holistic approach.
He called on the District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to embark on rigours monitoring and supervising to curtail teacher truancy, lateness, and laziness which were the underlying characteristics hampering quality teaching and learning in schools in the district.
Mr Agbanyo also called on parents to be responsible to help halt the falling standards of education in the district.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gyan-Mante Frempong, the Kadjebi District Police Commander, complained of high cases of accident cases in the district and blamed it on indiscipline among motor-riders.
He also named “wee” smoking and tramadol usage among the youths, the use of unlicensed guns, and stabbing as other disturbing incidents in the district.
He warned that no one would be spared if the law caught up with him or her.
Mr Anthony Agortimevor, the Budget Officer of GES bemoaned the rate at which education was going down in the district.
Mr Agortimevor, who represented the GES Directorate, said over the past five years, the district had not gone past 50 per cent in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results.
He mentioned that none of the Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the district is a category A or B, but rather C or D.Mr. Agortimevor also thanked the DCE for his tremendous support to the directorate.
Ms Susie Kadjah, the Births and Deaths Registrar sensitised the participants on the need to register their births and deaths.
Ms Kadjah said birth registration was vital for national planning because the country used birth and deaths records to compile accurate, complete, and timely crucial statistics, which along with population census were central to estimating population size, especially for small areas.
Okyeame Akyea Kwesi Asiedu, Chief Linguist called on the electorate not to sit on the fence only to engage in blame game when things go wrong Okyeame Asiedu, who chaired the function, also advised the Assembly to devise innovative ways of generating Internally-Generated Fund (IGF) for the assembly for development projects.
GNA