Mr Daniel Nana Addo-Kenneth, the Member of Parliament for Okere, has called for amendment of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF Act 455) of 1993 to ensure the Fund Administrator report directly to the Minister of Local Government.
That, he indicated, would facilitate effective supervision of disbursement of funds to the assemblies for development purposes.
“Currently the DACF Administrator does not report directly to the Local Government Minister, thereby making it difficult to effectively supervise disbursement of the funds to the assemblies,” he said.
“At one point, the DACF Administrator reports directly to the President and Parliament and this makes supervision difficult for the Local Government Minister.”
Mr Addo-Kenneth made the call in an interview with the media at Parliament House in Accra on Thursday.
He called for review of the formula for the distribution of funds to enable more funds to be allocated to urban and peri-urban centres for development.
He expressed concerns over deductions from the funds at source by the Administrator for procurement thereby leaving negligible amounts for the assemblies for development and said such practice must stop.
Touching on ways to improve tourism revenue, Mr Addo-Kenneth underscored the need for public sensitisation to whip up interest in domestic tourism to rake-in more income for the development of the local economies.
He suggested public-private partnership arrangement to develop the country’s tourist sites to attract more tourists.
GNA
