Corrupt revenue collectors will be punished – Darko

Mr Solomon Ofei Darko, Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Tuesday warned that corrupt revenue collectors would be punished.

"We know them and the law will not have mercy on anyone caught in the web," he said during a familiarisation tour of the Ablekuma Sub-Metro Council at Abossey Okai in Accra.

He said his office had instituted a mechanism for detecting corrupt revenue collectors who would be prosecuted at the Fast Track Courts.

Mr Darko announced that as part of the decentralisation programme urban, zonal and unit councils would be established to bring governance to the doorstep of people at the grassroots where planning for development would also begin.

"When these councils are strengthened to execute programmes in their areas of jurisdiction it would ease the burden on the metropolitan assembly".