Date: Oct 29 , 2019 BY: Benjamin Glover & Della Russel Ocloo
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) in the Greater Accra Region
has outlined its achievement over the past two and a half years, with the most
remarkable being the introduction of an integrated system that it claims has
led to an increase in its internally generated funds (IGF).
The new system,
according officials, allowed all key management staff to undertake real-time
monitoring of important information such as monitoring of revenue officers on
the field, actual collections from rate payers, number of bills that had been
distributed, among others.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tema, Mr
Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, who disclosed this at a “Meet-The-Press,” event in
Tema, said the introduction of the revenue management system had minimised
revenue leakages and improved collection significantly.
He said the new
innovation had yielded positive signs and the assembly was hoping to improve on
its performance by leveraging on information technology (IT) tools to maximise
revenue collection in the metropolis.
Revenue Mobilisation
Mr Anang-La said in 2017, the assembly collected GHC28,142,150.64 as IGF as
compared to GHC23,887,435.88 accrued in 2016.
He said the 2018 figure
declined marginally to GHC19,061,258.29, a situation which resulted from the
creation of the Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA).
Nii Anang-La said in a
bid to improve revenue generation to support development in the metropolis, the
assembly had revalued all properties and deployed national service personnel
and employees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) for the collection of
business operating permit data.
Scholarships
The MCE said the TMA had
offered a scholarship package worth GHC 289,443.00 to over 500 beneficiaries
within the metropolis to enable them to complete their academic programmes.
Responding to a question
on why a greater part of the metropolis remained in darkness in spite of the
provision of streetlights by the assembly, the MCE suggested that some
miscreants in the metropolis had stolen the streetlight bulbs and other wires
connected to the streetlights.
The assembly, he said, had so far installed and repaired 1,000 streetlighting
system at various locations and an additional 3,000 pieces had been procured to
be installed at various locations.
Education
The MCE said the TMA's
initiative to allow corporate and religious organisations to adopt a school in
the metropolis was yielding encouraging results.
Presently, he said a
number of corporate institutions and churches had bought into the initiative
which was in line with the assembly’s Restoration Agenda with many of the
institutions adopting and refurbishing a number of public schools.
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