By Francis Kwabena Cofie, GNA
Dome (G/A), April 28, GNA – The Ga East Municipal Assembly has held its first Town Hall Meeting for this year, 2026, at Dome in Accra to account to the people and present to them how the extent to which it operated on its planned performance for 2025.
Present at the event were Madam Elikplim Akurugu, the Municipal Chief Executive; Mr. Paul Bright Mintah, the Presiding Member of the Assembly; Dr. Mrs. Elizabeth Deletsa, the Municipal Coordinating Director and various Heads of Department who thereto respond to the various concerns raised by the participants.
Also participating in the programme were the Electricity Company of Ghana officials who briefed participants on current power outages.
Madam Elikplim Akurugu, in a welcome address read on her behalf, emphasized the importance of accounting to the people periodically in a participatory democracy to ensure transparency and accountability in the democratic governance process.
She said the inputs, suggestions and development needs of the people were critical ingredients needed to formulate and implement the development agenda of the Assembly to better the lot of the citizens.
She said democratic governance prioritizes giving the people the chance to contribute to the decision-making process in development planning, which forms the basis for organizing the event periodically as constitutionally prescribed.
Giving a presentation on the 2025 Annual Action Plan, Madam Margaret Amemasor, the Municipal Planning Officer, indicated that the Assembly achieved a little above 90 percent of its planned activities in the year under review.
She outlined the activities as reshaping and maintenance of roads, rehabilitation of schools and the provision of desks for public schools among others.
According to her, though the Assembly recorded notable successes in the year under review, it is still confronted with challenges such as recurrent flooding, inadequate funding, encroachment on public lands, drug abuse, child neglect, among others.
Sanitation, she explained, remained one of the key development priorities of the Assembly, adding that the Assembly has launched the 24-hour Clean Ga East campaign.
The campaign, she said, would be strictly enforced to keep the environment and principal streets clean.
Madam Amemasor mentioned that the Assembly is adopting measures to enhance the collection of Internally Generated Fund which would be used to tackle the various development needs of the people.
Educating participants on the Operation Clean Your Frontage campaign, Mr Charles Asabre Ampomah, the Municipal Environmental Health Officer said the 24-hourClean Ga East Program was aimed at improving sanitation, public health and environmental sustainability across the municipality.
He stressed that the programme was a renewed commitment by the Assembly to environmental stewardship, adding that maintaining a clean environment was a shared responsibility.
While acknowledging the municipality’s past efforts in tackling sanitation, he urged continued commitment from all stakeholders including government officials, traditional authorities, community leaders and residents in addressing the challenge head-on.
In an open forum, participants asked questions that centered on intermittent power outages, drug abuse and encroachment on public lands among others.
In a closing remark, Dr. Mrs. Deletsa thanked participants for availing themselves and cooperating with proceedings.
He said the assembly would leave no stone unturned to ensure that the suggestions and concerns raised would be addressed in harmony with the development plans of the assembly.
She urged the people to support the development programmes of the Assembly by honoring their tax obligations and abiding by the byelaws of the Assembly.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah