Northern Regional Coordinating Council to institute performance league-table for MMDAs

The Northern Regional Minister, Bede Aawotaazumo Ziedeng has revealed that the Northern Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) will soon institute a league-table on the performance of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the region.

The league table will however indicates the status of implementation of projects, programmes and activities in each district and place them in order of merit. It will also serve as a motivator to hardworking assemblies and remind non-performing ones to pull their weight or blamed and sactioned appropriately.

Mr. Bede Aawotaazumo Ziedeng made the revealation at a meeting with Presiding members, Coordinating Directors, Heads of Departments and MMDCEs in the region at the Northern Regional Coordinating Council.

The Minister said assemblies need to continuesly remind themselves about their mandate of mobilizing resources to make life better for their people. In that regard the minister emphasized the importance for the assemblies to give utmost attention to the mobilization of their own resources rather than solely relying on external sources.

Mr. Ziedeng pointed out that in 2012, revenue generation in assemblies in the northern region averaged 76.15 percent which was an increase of 17 percent from the previous year.

He said some districts however generated revenue as low as 17.21 percent of their targets. Despite the peace the northern region is currently enjoying Mr. Ziedeng said that cannot be taken for granted and made a special appeal to all areas with disputes especially chieftaincy to resort to dialogue and negotiations as a means of resolving their differences.

The regional minister also urged MMDAs to revitalize their district security committees and make them more proactive to deal with potential sources of conflicts before they escalate.