THE Ashaiman Municipal Assembly is adopting effective strategies to improve revenue generation to finance development projects in the municipality.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Numo Adinortey Addison, made this known at the passing out parade of newly recruited city guards.
He said the concept of grassroots development was vital to the country’s middle income objective as well as the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty eradication.
The eight female recruits underwent a six-week intensive training programme at the Ghana Police College where they were taken through foot drills, criminal law, public relations and the local government act.
Mr Adinortey stated that the city guards unit of the assembly was created to assist in its revenue mobilisation drive and to also assist police personnel on traffic duties, decongestion and maintenance of law and order.
He entreated the recruits to ensure that residents in the municipality were accorded the needed respect and courtesy in the discharge of their duties, stressing that they should also work hard to ensure the criminality tag associated with the municipality was a thing of the past.
The MCE expressed concern about street-hawking which had taken a new dimension in the municipality, although the assembly had in the past spent a huge chunk of its revenue on decongestion.
Mr Adinortey appealed to the residents to co-operate with the assembly and the guards in revenue mobilisation to help improve the assembly’s developmental drive.
A Member of the Council of State, Mr Adjei Annang, who represented the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Armah Ashittey, challenged the guards to live above reproach as they contribute their quota towards the development of the assembly and the community as a whole.
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