Government accelerating development through active decentralization

Minister of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, has said that the Government is committed to decentralization by providing infrastructure to create jobs and bring development closer to the people.

He noted that the provision of regional offices and other forms of infrastructure with the collaboration of locals was creating jobs and ensuring development in the newly-created regions.

 “The process[ of development and decentralization] is a gradual one. There are very key ministries whose work interfaces with us and whom the target is on to be sure that we can further decentralise.

If we look at education, there is a plan to make sure that we decentralise as much as we can…So that within the local space, managing education becomes a reality. And then making it much more effective rather than having a unit at the top. Managing a system with a huge base that is later moved to effectively tackle it. The whole concept of decentralisation is to take away power and give to another,” he said in an interview during his working visit to the Northern, Upper East and West Regions.

He reiterated the Government’s commitment to developing the new regions as it brings infrastructure closer to them.

“If you come to the Bono East, they are now going to have a regional hospital. If you go to Sunyani, Bono has a regional hospital and of course that of Ahafo. So, within the same landmass, you are sort of doubling or adding more of the facilities that people critically need,” he explained.