Oti Regional Planning officer makes shocking revelations.

The Assembly is mandated by law to hold at two town hall meetings within a year to engage stakeholders, the community and media to update them with budget for the year and account for expenditure.

Jasikan and Biakoye were the only districts that organised town hall on implementation and workplans. Using PFM template is the responsibility of the citizen to find out what the Assembly is going to spend our resources on and we do not engage the Assembly, resources may be allocated in a way that may not please us.

The oti Regional planning officer Mr. Wiafe Raymond has said,every citizen has the right to make a contribution or an input on how projects are distributed.

Mr Wiafe said, citizens normally waits till the harm has been created before raising concerns, which by that time, alot of harm has already been caused.

Furthermore, all Assemblies should have clients service department since it is a service delivery organization, the client service department should be the first point of call on any information one seeks.

They should be able to give it to you or assist you on how to get the information.

But a survey conducted revealed that there is non existence of Client Service Department in most Districts with dedicated telephone number and those who could not provide any report on it existence.

Finally, it is only 28% of the projects in the region are within schedule, the rest are abandoned or beyond schedule and therefore urged the media to keep knocking on their doors for accountability.