A revenue mobilisation campaign has been launched by the Adentan Municipal Assembly to generate sufficient revenue to finance development projects within the municipality.
The campaign was also to sensitise rate-payers on their civic obligations to the assembly.
Speaking at the launch, the Chief Executive of the Municipality, Madam Nubly Kakra Vanlare, said the assembly was one of the beneficiaries of the Urban Poverty Reduction Project (UPRP) with its major component of institutional strengthening and capacity building in the area of revenue mobilisation.
“The Legislative Instrument that sets us up clearly mandates us to collect revenue for development, which makes revenue mobilisation one of our main functions, yet one of our greatest challenge”.
She said the assembly needed revenue to fulfil its vision of creating a modernised, harmonious, environmentally friendly and economically viable municipality to deliver people- centred services.
The campaign which is being funded by the Social Investment Fund (SIF) was to improve the efficiency of revenue collection machinery at the local level.
It was also to address the issue of shortage of reliable database for resource mobilisation to complement specific interventions that focus on poverty revaluation and rating.
Madam Vanlare said “we are aware that even when we draw up the best of plans and programmes for the advancement of our municipality, all our good intentions would be stillborn without the accompanying funding”.
She was, therefore, of the hope that the campaign would make rate payers and residents of the municipality appreciate the fact that the demand for good roads, schools, markets and hospitals can only be met if they fulfil their end of the bargain.
In aid of the programme, the assembly had taken some revenue officers through some training programmes on effective revenue mobilisation.
Launching the campaign, the Minister of Local Government, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, said correct naming of streets and numbering of houses in the country would help improve revenue collection of the assemblies.
He said the ministry was putting together a manual to set the standards for take-off of the naming and numbering of streets and houses.
He, therefore, urged the assembly to start with the project while they await the manual.
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