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Parliament to mourn Salia
Accra, March 18, GNA - Members of Parliament (MPs) would on
Thursday pay their last respect to their colleague, Mr Edward
Salia,
NDC member for Jirapa, who passed away last month after a short
illness.
A State funeral would be organised for Mr Salia at the forecourt
of the State House.
Before the commencement of Public Business on Wednesday, the
Deputy Majority Leader, Mr John Tia, in a statement on the floor
of
the House, paid a tribute to the memory of the late MP, saying
he led an exemplary life.
Members who contributed to the statement from both sides of the
House touched on the late MP's humility, discipline and
selflessness.
A minute's silence was later observed in his memory.
Earlier, Mr Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, the Deputy Ministerial nominee
for Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, told the
Appointments Committee of Parliament that district assemblies
should be able to use information, communication technology to
bring development to their areas.
He said with the use of website, a district could advertise
investment opportunities and potentials peculiar to the area and
projects through the use of the internet.
Mr Afriyie-Ankrah was responding to questions about his
contribution to the development of the districts if given the
nod as a deputy minister, when he appeared before the Committee.
He said the human resources capacity of some districts needed to
be built up to help in the development process because most
people refused postings to these areas.
Mr Afriyie-Ankrah said and there was the need to come out with
an
incentive package to attract more qualified staff to run the
development agenda.
He touched on the need for districts to generate funds
internally
through large scale farming by identifying crops which could
thrive in the areas.
In response to what could be done to discourage district chief
executives from preventing Members of Parliament from
participating in the district tender processes by sidelining
them from sitting in the tender committees meetings, the nominee
gave assurance that he would help to address the problem.
Mr Afriyie-Ankrah said the Local Government Ministry had
initiated many projects and was supervising many departments
which were a real challenge that needed to be looked into.
The nominee said a stakeholders meeting would be held to review
some of the local government structures and legal instruments in
order to work out a better system.
GNA
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