Committee on beatification of Tamale inaugurated

Tamale, Sept 15, GNA - Mr Mohammed Amin Adam, Tamale Metropolitan Chief executive, has inaugurated a 19-member committee charged with the responsibility of relocating residents and the beautification of Tamale. Membership of the committee included departmental heads from the public and the informal sectors, the security agencies, chiefs and religious bodies.

Mr Adam is the chairman of the committee and sub committees would be formed to work in areas of relocation, resettlement, beautification, tree planting along the ceremonial streets, mounting of bill boards, erecting of monuments and renaming some of the streets. The committee has been given two weeks to come out with a blue print on the beautification and the relocation exercise.

Mr Adam said there was the need to restore the dignity of the people in Tamale by making the city comparable to any city in the world. He said the committee was not going to be a bureaucratic one and a "talking shop" and called on residents to cooperate with it to work in a conducive atmosphere in ensuring that the city became attractive to visitors.

Mr Adam advised members of the committee to put favouritism, tribalism and nepotism aside and work assiduously. "Let us work hard and be insulted today and be praised tomorrow for the sake of development". In related development Mr. Adam also inaugurated a 10-member Revenue Mobilisation Task Force.

He said Tamale has about 52 revenue mobilisation sources, "but regrettably the Metropolis can only generate 1.6 billion cedis a year, which is unacceptable" and that property rate alone could give the Metro about nine billion cedis a month.

Mr Adam urged members of the task force to be bold and fearless.