Chalog is urging privatization in the middle of the KMA scandal

The Chamber of Local Governance (Chalog) has campaigned for the privatization of income in the metropolese assembly across the country.

This call follows a police investigation in the Ashanti region, in which four employees of the Revenue Department of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) are involved.

The officials are said to be part of a syndicate behind a fake ticketing system that deals with the dealer on the Kumasi central market.

In an interview in Channel One News on Friday, May 9th, the President of Chalog, Dr. Richard Fiadomor, that the entrusting of the income collection to the private sector would increase accountability and ensure more efficient use of funds for local development.

“The income should be privatized. If the private sector collects, you cannot keep it for 24 hours, since the meeting can monitor. However, if it is your employees from the government sector, the money can remain with you for more than 48 hours, which leads to unnecessary depletion of money,” he said.

Dr. Fiadomor also accused the management of the Kumasi metropolitan assembly of negligence and explained that they could not enforce the proper monitoring of their internal Revenue Systems.

He emphasized that the KMA for gaps in its surveillance mechanisms must be held accountable.

“The other way in how you can go is to involve serious surveillance because the assembly has a hierarchy. There is a managing director, coordination director, finance officer and these financial operators among the financial officials.

“For me, the reason why it is difficult to monitor them is that some of the financial officials are involved in this matter.”