AMA to give disabled their share of the Common Fund

Accra, April 12, GNA - Mr. Kwao Sampson, Senior Budget Analyst of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), on Friday said the Assembly would do everything to ensure that Persons Living with Disabilities within the metropolis were given their two per cent share of the District Assemblies' Common Fund as stipulated by the constitution. He said the Ghana National Association for the Physically Challenged, Society for the Blind and the Ghana National Association for the Deaf would be given the money to supplement their budgets.

In an interview with the GNA, he said a special committee, which comprised representatives from all three Associations, the Ghana Education Service and Department of Social Welfare, had been set up by the Assembly to oversee issues pertaining to the disbursement of the fund. The Committee, he said, was now waiting for the General Assembly of the AMA to deliberate on its recommendations on to how the fund should be disbursed.

Mr Sampson said the Common Fund was released quarterly and all the three Associations had been asked to present their budgets to the Assembly and the Committee. He urged all persons with disabilities to join their various Associations in order to benefit from the fund. "The AMA is concerned about the disabled in our society and would do everything it has to do to protect their interest," he said.