I’m The Member of Parliament for Agotime-Ziofe, Honourable Charles Agbeve prays for increased budgetary allocation despite the 80% direct and 8% indirect allocations earlier this year.
According to him, the novel budgetary allocation is still inadequate following the quantum of work at the grassroot which will drive development.
The legislator emphasized the urgent need to develop another city just like Accra elsewhere in a bid to spread development.
“Considering the kind of issues coming up from the districts,there’s no allocation made for roads, and you know rural development has to do with roads if farm produce are to be transported to the market centres, no provision was made for security.
Today, you and I know that chieftancy disputes have escalated stalling development,”the Agotime-Ziofe MP cited.
The MP revealed that there’s no provision for agriculture holding courting a strong campaign for rural farmers support systems in the areas of fertilizer,irrigation, machineries, amongst others.
The Agotime-Ziofe MP contended that if moneys sent to the district are increased, the enumerated areas could be largely impacted.
He strongly believes that if allocations are made for specific areas, moneys meant for hospitals,schools,CHPS compound and others will not be diverted.
Secondly, the MP indicated that when the rural base is stable and developing, it gives credence to development at the top.
In lieu of the above, the Member of Parliament is pushing for a revert from the current 5% to the original 7.5% to stir up development.
“Development must move away from Accra, no, what do you want to build again in Accra or is it going to pull downold buildings and build again?,”Mr. Agbeve questioned.
“Let’s create another Tema in another district within another enclave and send people there. Today, may their soul rest in peace, am told they are all ladies. Is it because of work. In essence, I am saying that the budget needs to create potential avenues for jobs,”the Agotime-Ziofe lawmaker emphasized.
He mantained that job creation opportunities must be made available everywhere and not concentrating at just one place to avert the unfortunate and unacceptable lose of Ghanaian youth just because of their quest to find jobs.
Honourable Charles Agbeve is urging the government to implement measures tailored towards sustaining the micro economics gains chalked so far.
Story by Prosper Kwaku Selassy Agbitor
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