THE non-co-operative attitude of some past and present chief executives is seriously hampering development in various districts in the Western Region, some district economic planning officers have complained.
They made the complaint at their maiden meeting with the Regional Economic Planning Officer and the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council at Sekondi.
Some of the participants, who could not hide their frustrations, urged the current administration not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Responding to the complaints, the regional Economic Planning Officer, Mr J. P Atta-Panyin, said the role of the economic planning officer at the district level could not be underestimated.
He said the main duties of the economic planning officer were to assist their respective districts and substructures in the initiation, formulation of policies, programme/projects and implementing them.
“The district economic planning officers are also expected to initiate action for the preparation of medium term development plans and review all related issues and without the co-operation of the district chief executive, it would be difficult to achieve the desired results,” he said
For her part, the Deputy Western Regional Minister, Ms Betty Bosumtwi-Sam, said each and everyone in the present administration was making sure that the needs of the people were met.
She said that could only be achieved if all districts, agencies and department worked as a team.
“We can not have a divided front and expect to progress. When the people who reposed their trust in us and voted us into power are expecting results we cannot fail them,” she said.
She said district planning officers were expected to provide the assembly with information and data which were necessary for the formulation of district development plans and assist in the evaluation of tenders.
She said it was, therefore, important to work as a team to ensure that development was not thwarted just because two people did not agree.
She said while the newly appointed district chief executives were undergoing various stages of orientation, it was important that the civil servants left politics for the politicians.
“It is your constitutional right to belong to a political party, but at the workplace, you do not have to put on your political colours. Try as much as possible to relegate your political inclinations to the background and work as professionals,” she said.
She urged all to realise that elections were over and that it was time to work for the people of Ghana and reminded the planning officers that as civil servants, they must be careful of what they said and did in order not to send the wrong signals to the public.
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