Begoro (E/R), Sept 28, GNA - The district chief executive for Fanteakwa, Mr Collins Owusu-Appiah, has deplored the low local revenue generation by area councils and called on them to take steps to improve the situation.

Addressing the second session of the assembly at Begoro, he said he regretted that as at the end of July, the assembly had collected only 75.7 million cedis, representing 29 per cent of the targeted 255.1 million cedis for the year.

Mr Owusu-Appiah described the situation as "very serious" and urged the members to evolve better ways of mobilising local revenue in order to enhance its share of the common fund.

The assembly is to be given sanitation equipment worth over 100 milion cedis, under the Performance Improvement Fund (PIF), while it had to set aside about 50 million cedis as counterpart fund for it to benefit from an Urban Five project estimated at 520 million cedis.

Mr Owusu-Appiah announced that the assembly had disbursed 130 million cedis to farmers, artisans and small-scale entrepreneurs under the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) and warned the beneficiaries to pay back their loans at the due date.

A seven-bedroom transit quarters and a semi-detached bungalow have been constructed at Begro to attract high calibre civil servants to serve in the district.

On-going projects include a three-storey office block, a three-classroomed block for the Akrumso Primary School, cladding of pavilions for nine schools, staff bungalows and two KVIPs at Osino and Begoro.

The Presiding Member, Mr E. O. Larbi, appealed to the Police Administration to post personnel to 13 vacant Police stations and create a district station at Begoro.