Mr Stephen Baidoo, the Bodi District Chief Executive (DCE), has tasked the department in charge of revenue mobilisation to intensify its strategies to increase the Assembly’s Internally Generated Funds (IGF), to adequately finance its programmes and projects.
He said this when the Sefwi-Bodi District Assembly held its Second Ordinary Meeting of the Second Session of the Fourth Assembly, at Bodi in the Western North Region.
Mr Baidoo said the Assembly received an amount of GHC19 million as its share of the District Assembly Common Fund for the year 2025.
However, the Funds from the central government had its guidelines for use, so programmes and projects that were not earmarked for execution by the Fund, could not be catered for except they use the Assembly’s IGF, he added.
“Meanwhile, we have been able to generate only 39 per cent of our 2025 IGF targets, which has really affected the Assembly in its project funding.”
“We all have to work extra hard to generate more revenue for the Assembly, because disbursement of the District Assembly Common Fund is based on how much you generate internally as an Assembly, so the higher you generate the higher your Common Fund, so in this case, we have no option than to intensify our strategy to generate more revenue internally,” he said.
Mr Fusein Haruna, the Bodi District Coordinating Director, urged the assembly members to coordinate with the citizens in their electoral areas to devise strategies to resolve issues of sanitation and environment in their communities.
He also encouraged members who had issues of bad roads in their areas to liaise with his office so that the DRIP machines could be released to reshape those bad roads.
