The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive Rex Asanga counts the challenges he faced in his first year in office as the Municipal Chief Executive. Apexnewsgh.com report
According to Mr. Asanga, moving butcher to their new abattoir and the grain market stand so tall among other issues he faced in his first year in office.
“The first challenge that faced me as MCE was in the area of decongestion, where we had to move the butchers from where they are operating t a new abattoir that has been lying idle for 4 years, and the butchers were resisting movement. When we had to move the grain sellers from the new market back to the old market which has been abandoned for the past 15 years and people were even rearing pigs and cattle inside it and most of the stores were locked up and nobody was using those store and I had to move the grain because the grain in the market pulls a lot of people. When you go there now, almost all the stores are occupied and the grains market is very active”.
“That was a big Challenge because the grain market and the butchers were not ready to move, but we had to stand firm on our fit and eventually i succeeded in moving them. He said
He also described the opening roads exercise as another challenging adventure witnessed in some parts of the Municipality within his one-year period.
“When we began to open the roads, especially in some parts of the municipality Doportidongo. People had containers on our roads and these roads are on our map but eventually, they have been taken over by buildings, containers, and all that, and we came and say we wanted to open our roads and there was resistance but we had to do the needful. Because, at the end of the day, is a good thing for almost everybody. This is going to continue this year. The first quarter of this year, we are going to open up more roads”. He explained
Revenue Mobilization is noted to be a huge problem, especially when it comes to running the Assembly’s day-to-day activities. Mr. Aasanga during our visit hinted that the Assembly is going to take issues of revenue very seriously in the year 2023.
“One of the challenges I think we are going to tackle seriously is in the area of revenue mobilization. I think as an Assembly we are not doing too well and the task force that I set up, I don’t whether is for the reasons of resistance or whatever, they more and less gave up and the impact has not been what we are expecting in terms of revenue mobilization. But, this year we are going to go head-on”. He stressed
However, Mr. Asanga said street lighting was one of the problems the municipality was facing at the time assume office and almost everyone on the radio was calling on the Assembly to fix the streetlights. Meanwhile, he acknowledges that not getting a permanent solution to the continuous power outages is a big challenge for him in his first year.
The MCE was speaking in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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