Professor David Millar, Vice-Chancellor for the Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies and the current Chairperson for the Bolgatanga MCE’s Special Initiative Committee says work on the Special Committee, constituted by the MCE for Bolgatanga, Rex Asanga, has begun in earnest.
Members of the Committee, working voluntarily, are expected to identify critical needs of the Municipality, formulate and package the same for the donor projects. It will also use social media and other forms of communication to attract funding for such identifiable projects to be executed.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East, Professor Millar said while members of the Committee agree that the government is expected to carry development to all areas of society, the government cannot attend to all the needs of the people in a timely manner.
“As citizens of the place, we can be doing our widow’s mite while anticipating anything that happens, if it does,” he said.
For this reason, the Committee’s work would be essential in furthering the development of the Municipality. Professor Millar admitted that infrastructural deficits, in the Bolgatanga Municipality, cut across many sectors. This is why the Committee’s drive will be focused on one sector at a time.
“We have had our first post-inaugural meeting and the decision coming out strongly is for us to start sector by sector. We hope to start with the education sector and deal with some schools where kids are laying on their tommies, schools under trees and also schools with some broken-down infrastructure,” he disclosed.
He continued to say that as a Committee “we are coming out to solicit for support widely. In the entire Bolgatanga Municipality, anyone who has anything to contribute anything towards it, in-kind or in cash, we will mobilise and see how we can start doing it bit by bit,” he said.
Professor Millar said the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) has been engaged to design cost-efficient, yet durable, model modern basic classroom infrastructure. The Committee would then proceed based on the expert advice and models as presented by the BTU.
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