{"id":392501,"date":"2017-05-27T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/27\/move-away-from-wasteful-spending-kwamina-duncan-tells-mmdces\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T11:40:17","slug":"move-away-from-wasteful-spending-kwamina-duncan-tells-mmdces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/27\/move-away-from-wasteful-spending-kwamina-duncan-tells-mmdces\/","title":{"rendered":"Move away from wasteful spending &#8211; Kwamina Duncan tells MMDCEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Central Regional Minister\u00a0 Kwamina Duncan, has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives\u00a0 (MMDCEs) to move away from wasteful spending to save hard-earned money for accelerated development.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the Central Regional Council (CRC) meeting last Wednesday, Mr Duncan said the CRC would closely monitor and ensure that MMDCEs worked to serve the people and not themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We must be frugal. We must be conscious of saving money for the development of our communities,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0The meeting, which was attended by MMDCEs and heads of decentralised departments and agencies in the region, was to discuss and address pertinent issues affecting the region\u2019s socio-economic development.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He stated that they had been appointed to serve and must, therefore, consciously desist from over-indulgence that wasted communal resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We are here as servant leaders not to spend the people\u2019s money on ourselves,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If there is a zero star hotel, I would sleep in a zero star hotel just to save the government money,&#8221; he said to emphasise his point.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said rather, MMDCEs must move from the over-dependence on the common fund for projects and explore new and innovative sources of income for the speedy development of the districts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We must not sit waiting to use the common fund allocation. There will be very minimal development if you sit down waiting for common fund alone,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Chieftaincy disputes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Duncan expressed concern about chieftaincy disputes in the region, saying they were slowing development issues in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He appealed to chiefs to cooperate with the Regional House of Chiefs to resolve all pending chieftaincy disputes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He also called for collaborated efforts to improve sanitation in the communities to prevent the outbreak of communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On education, he said district assemblies must fight poverty, hunger and disease by ensuring that communities took advantage of the government\u2019s free education programme to take off later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rev. David Ampah Bennin, said the region was relatively peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He called for the completion of police flats across the region to ease the accommodation problems facing the service.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>GWCL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Regional Water Quality Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Mr Stephen Amihere-Mensah, noted that customers owed the GWCL GH\u00a260,290,230.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said of the amount, government departments and agencies owed GH\u00a242.678,329, while individuals owed GH\u00a217, 611,901.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t              <!-- new position --><br \/>\n          <!-- new position end -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Regional Minister\u00a0 Kwamina Duncan, has asked Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives\u00a0 (MMDCEs) to move away from wasteful spending to save hard-earned money for accelerated development. &#13; 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