The poor revenue collection performance by many of the municipal and district assemblies (MDAs) should not continue.  Mr. Darfour, who was addressing a meeting of the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in Koforidua, could not hide his disappointment at the underperformance by most of the MDAs, and said they needed to up their game.

As of the end of April, only eight out of the 26, had hit 33 percent of their set revenue target for the year.  What had been raked in by the remaining was below the projected figures with one of them having collected as low as eight percent of its revenue target.

He told the MDCEs that with such performance, the assemblies would struggle to implement projects in their medium term development plans – to transform the lives of the people.  Mr. Darfour used the occasion to announce that the application of 54 companies to establish factories in 17 of the districts, under the one district one factory (1D1F) policy, had been approved.

He added that the region had met all the requirements for the implementation of the government’s signature projects He appealed to the Regional House of Chiefs to go the extra mile to peacefully resolve chieftaincy disputes threatening the peace and hampering socio-economic development in parts of the region.