CIVIL, PUBLIC SERVANTS MUST BE CONVERSANT WITH NDC MANIFESTO (PAGE 13, JUNE 26)

THE Deputy Western Regional Minister, Ms Betty Bosumtwi-Sam, has called on civil and public servants in the region to be conversant with the manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in order to be able to interprete, implement and meet set targets accordingly.
She said there had been political and administrative changes in the country, and so both civil and public servants owed it a duty to assist the government in the implementation of its policies and programmes.
“Let us help the government of the day to succeed, otherwise, all of us would have failed,” she told them.
Ms Bosumtwi-Sam made the call when the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) met heads of government departments, institutions and organisations in the region in Sekondi.
She urged them to work as a team, irrespective of their political leaning to confront the problems of the region such as poor road network, poverty, diseases and limited health facilities to help uplift the living standards and conditions of the people in the region.
“Let us make sure that our activities positively affect the people in the region,” she added.
Ms Bosumtwi-Sam stressed the need for the civil and public servants to be responsible for and committed to their duties to push the country forward.
The deputy regional minister also urged them to manage their budgets and finances judiciously, since there had been a cut in the budgetary allocations.
She also advised them to prioritise their programmes.
The Western Regional Director of Education, Mrs Rebecca Afiba Dadzie, for her part, called on the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in the region to increase the number of sponsorship to the various Colleges of Education to help increase the number of qualified teachers in the region.
She regretted that over 50 per cent of teachers in the basic schools in the region were not professional teachers.
She said out of about 8,117 professional teachers who came out from the colleges this year, the Western Region had only 443, because this was the only number of trained teachers sponsored by all the 17 assemblies in the region.