Presiding Member calls for substantive Obuasi MCE

AS VARIOUS pressure groups in the Obuasi Municipality, continue to lobby for their preferred candidates for the position of Obuasi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), the Presiding Member of the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Nana Asirifi Asare II, has added his voice to the numerous calls on the President, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, to appoint a substantive MCE for the area.

Groups like the Adansi Students Association, and the youth wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Obuasi, have through separate press releases, openly declared their support for the candidature of Mr. Samuel Amoako Otchere, the Obuasi NPP Youth Organizer.

He made the appeal through the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Emmanuel Owusu Ansah, at the Third General Meeting of the Assembly, held last Wednesday,

According to Nana Asirifi II, the appointment of a substantive MCE, would help facilitate the development of the municipality.

Responding to the appeal, the Ashanti Regional Minister, and acting MCE for Obuasi, said he was aware that a number of applications had been forwarded to the President, and hoped “at the right time, a substantive MCE would be appointed.”

He said it would be in the interest of the municipality, if a substantive MCE was appointed, stressing that, “when that is down, I will be relieved of the problem of having to travel down all the time.”

On revenue, the acting MCE said it had, as at the end of July this year, collected an amount of five hundred and ninety-one thousand, four hundred and sixty-one Ghana cedis, forty five pesewas (GH¢591,461.45), out of an estimated revenue of five hundred and sixty-two thousand, seven hundred and sixty-four Ghana cedis, seventy-five pesewas (GH¢562,764.75).

The Assembly, under the period, bagged GH¢30,092.08, GH¢34,392.00 and GH¢53,378.00, as against GH¢17,500.00, GH¢30,145. 97, and GH¢33.162.50, as revenue for Miscellaneous, Licenses, and Lands, representing 171,114.08 and 160.96 per cent respectively.

With Investment, Rent, Fees and Fines, and Rates it managed to collect GH¢5,472.67, GH¢21,340.50, GH¢75,686.20 and GH¢371,100.00, as against GH¢6,533.38, GH¢24,877.07, GH¢77,165.08 and GH¢373,380.75 respectively.