The Minister for the Upper East Region, Hon. Stephen Yakubu is unhappy about the poor performance of Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the 2021 monitoring report assessment compiled by the Regional Economic Planning Unit.
He attributed the poor performance to their negative attitudes towards Government business, and admonished staff of the MDAs to change their lackadaisical attitudes towards work, stressing that “We can’t continue like this.”
Hon. Yakubu expressed his dissatisfaction when he joined Senior Management members form all 15 MDAs to in the Region to analyse the dissemination of the 2021 monitoring report assessment compiled by the Regional Economic Planning Unit.
The Minister, who was visibly not happy about their performance in sanitation, policy implementation, administration among others over the last three quarters of 2021, said any staff of the Assemblies not ready to put up their best, should make way for hardworking staff to take over.
Hon. Yakubu, who is a former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, advised the Assemblies to take the exercise seriously, and share relevant ideas among themselves so that the Region could be compete with other Regions.
The Regional Coordinating Director (RCD), Mr. Abubakari Inusah Alhaji, noted that the core mandate of the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), which is to monitor and evaluate the MDAs, was critical, and identified the lack of unseriousness on the part of leadership of the various Assemblies as the cause of the poor performance.
The Director charged staff to up their game, and take the exercise seriously so that they could identify their weaknesses and improve on them.
He urged top Management members of the Assemblies to avail themselves anytime the monitoring team visited their respective Assemblies, and stop assigning junior staff to attend to the team.
Mr. Inusah Alhaji said the last quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 would commence in July, and therefore appealed to Managements of the Assemblies to provide reliable, accurate and sufficient data to help the RCC rebrand the Region through a consultative approach.
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