The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development in collaboration with the Municipal Health Insurance Scheme in efforts to seeking good health of Persons with Disability (PWDs) in the municipality, has embarked on the registration and renewal of National Health Insurance Scheme policy for persons with disability in the municipality.

In an interaction with the beneficiaries, the Municipal Director of Social Welfare, and Community Development, Mr. Francis Opoku Nsiah, said the exercise was not first of its kind.

He established that it was the department’s routine exercise executed every year as to when members’ cards expired, and new entrants enlisted unto the scheme.

He encouraged members to inform others about such privileges since not all persons with disability were registered in the indigent register.

He urged members to call on the social welfare office to be assisted to renew their cards.

He admonished them not to wait until they were sick before they seek medical attention, adding that the renewal of the card must not be effected after complete expiration.

The director bemoaned that the challenge the office faced was the PWDs who failed to present their cards for renewal 3 months to expiry date as stipulated.

The director said management was still devising a way to get them enrolled but until then NHIS secretariat would not be able to be in their homes for the registration owing to the set- up of the gadgets.

A total of 26 PWDs were declared as indegents with a break down of 25 for renewal and 1 for registration.

As part of encouraging pupils at the basic level education the Hon. Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu has led a team to some selected basic schools in the muncipality to fete the pupils who have announced their inclusion for the first time at school.

The Salvation Army KG and Roman Catholic KG were schools feted as means to encourage the pupils.

The MCE and Municipal Education Director respectively, counselled the pupils to have interest in going to school everyday.

Stationery such as pencils, erasers, exercise books were distributed to the pupils.

The pupils were feted to drinks and biscuits that courted their happiness.

In attendance was the West Akim Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr. Paul McOfori with some heads of department.

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The West Akim Municipal Assembly on Friday , 23rd December 2022 held its annual staff durbar to crown the year.

The Hon. Municipal Chief Executive , Hon. Seth Oduro Boadu addressing staff of the Assembly expressed his appreciation to them for their hard work over the year and also their commitment towards revenue mobilization for the development of the Municipality.

The occasion was also used to honour some deserving staff who had served the Municipality diligently and were no longer staff of the Assembly.

As a follow-up to the enforcement in revenue payment in the West Akim municipality, the Assembly staff have extended its revenue collection to other areas outside Asamankese. Defaulting traders paid their rates to prevent their stores being locked as the staff were poised for the collection of the revenue. During the operation it was detected that more traders were unaware of the period of payment of rates. According to them, they thought they were to pay rates once but not periodical. Those traders bemoaned that the Assembly embarked on periodical sensitisation for more traders to be aware that the rates were not to be paid just once. Stores of defaulting traders were locked as a result of inability to pay their rates. Heads of department, and unit led teams for the operation in the various communities within the municipality.

As part of measures to enforcing revenue collection in the West Akim municipality, the Hon. West Akim Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu has deliberated with the revenue collectors to improving the level of revenue income of the Assembly.

The MCE bemoaned the low level of revenue collection and charged them to put in more effort to improving it.

He appealed to the collectors to be prudent in their discharge of duties to ensuring that more revenue was collected.

Various revenue collectors unmasked some of the challenges they encountered in line of their duties to which those challenges were addressed.

In attendance were some heads of department who took turns to sensitise the collectors in their various job description.

The meeting was a follow-up to the revenue collection exercise the Assembly staff had embarked upon as effort to enhancing the revenue level of the Assembly.

The Municipal Finance Officer of West Akim Municipal Assembly, Mr. Senyo Asimenu has led a team comprising the staff to enforce revenue collection within the municipality.

Prior to the exercise the Hon. Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu, summoned a staff durbar to sensitise the Assembly staff on the essence of enforcing the revenue collection.

According to the MCE the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of the Assembly was woefully low and needed pragmatic step to raising the financial flow of the Assembly.

He added, that, the Assembly might not be able to execute its obligation to serving the inhabitants of the municipality if its income was woefully inadequate.

Reasons ascribed to the low revenue collection were inadequate revenue collectors and apathy in payment of revenue especially by traders.

The maiden exercise that included heads of department, unit, and the general staff was conducted within the Asamankese enclaves.

It would be extended to other areas of the municipality.

The West Akim Municipal Assembly today donated 500 dual desks to the West Akim Education Directorate to be distributed to some selected basic schools within the Municipality.

The Hon Municipal Chief Executive for West Akim on Thursday cut sod for the construction of a KG block and 1 no Three Unit classroom block for Sabon Zongo and Otwenkwanta respectively.

As part of Government’s effort in restoring the greenery in Ghana’s seeming degraded environment and forest depletion, the West Akim Municipal Assembly has observed the Green Ghana Day. The tree planting exercise was symbolically conducted at a forest portion of the St. Thomas Technical Senior High School.

In an address to mark the day, Hon. Charles Acheampong Member of Parliament for Lower West Akim Constituency), said it was very significant to mark the day to restore Ghana’s greenery environment. He indicated that the day was being observed nationwide, adding that, all MPs at various constituencies were taking part in the tree planting exercise. That, he said showcased how relevant the day is to the Government. He urged all citizens to plant trees in their various environment and to ensure its growth by monitoring it.The MP noted that individuals, schools, or groups that will monitor the trees planted to ensure its growth would be awarded to encourage the activity.

\The Hon. MCE, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu, reiterated government’s commitment to ensuring the restoration of Ghana’s greenery environment by calling on all and sundry to embark on the activity of tree planting. He bemoaned that the tree planting exercise marked a year ago was not monitored which led to a stunted growth of most of the trees planted. Owing to what the MCE termed was “unfortunate”, he appealed to all stakeholders to ensure monitoring of this year’s exercise to yield good results. The Kade District Assistant Manager of the Forestry Commission, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique, called on all stakeholders to support the tree planting exercise to make it a success. He said 60,000 trees had been earmarked to be planted in the West Akim municipality to mark the day. He urged the inhabitants to call on the office of the Municipal Forestry commission for a tree to go plant.

The Hon. Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu, led a team comprising the Hon Member of Parliament for the area, Mr. Charles Acheampong, the Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr. Paul Mac Ofori, the Municipal Director of National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mrs. Modesta Sapaty, the Kade District Assistant Manager of the Forestry Commission, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique, and some heads of department and unit.

The Municipal Chief Executive, MP, Municipal Coordinating Director, Area Manager of Ghana Commercial Bank, Headmaster of St. Thomas School and some heads of department and unit symbolically planted a tree each to showcase the exercise.

As part of Government’s effort to ensuring that the masses understand the E-levy policy, the West Akim Division of the Information Services Department has embarked on a public sensitisation.

The sensitisation preceded by a one-day workshop organised by the Ghana Revenue Authority to equip information officers nationwide to be abreast of the rudiments of the E-levy policy.

Mosques, churches, community information centres, and market centres are the target areas of the sensitisation.

Aside that open broadcast is also ongoing on the public education.