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IN
exercise of the powers conferred
on the Provisional National
Defence Council Secretary
responsible for Local Government
by section 2 of the Local
Government Law, 1988 (P.N.D.C.L.
207), and with the prior approval
of the Council, this Instrument is
made this 22nd day of November,
1988.
Section 1—Establishment of
Assembly.
There is hereby established a
District Assembly to be known as
the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese
District Assembly (hereinafter
referred to as the "Assembly") for
the area specified in the First
Schedule to this Instrument.
Section 2—Membership of Assembly,
etc.
(1) The Assembly shall
consist of not more than forty-six
persons which shall be made up
of—
(a) the District Secretary;
(b) thirty persons representing
the electoral areas who shall be
elected directly by the electorate
in accordance with regulations
made in that behalf by the
National Commission for Democracy;
and
(c) not more than fifteen persons
comprising the traditional
authorities or their
representatives and other persons
ordinarily resident in the
District, who shall be appointed
by the Council in consultation
with the traditional authorities
and organised productive economic
groupings in the District.
(2) For the purpose of election to
the Assembly, the area of
authority of the Assembly shall be
divided into the electoral areas
specified in the First Schedule to
this Instrument.
Section 3—Functions of Assembly.
(1) The Assembly shall perform all
the functions conferred on
District Assemblies by the Local
Government Law, 1988, (P.N.D.C.L.
207).
(2) Without prejudice to
subparagraph (1) of this
paragraph, the Assembly shall
perform the functions set out in
the Second Schedule to this
Instrument.
Section 4—Common Seal.
(1) The Assembly shall have a
Common Seal which shall be such as
the Secretary may approve by
notice in the Gazette.
(2) Until such time as the Common
Seal approved in sub-paragraph (1)
is available, a rubber stamp
bearing the inscription “The
Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District
Assembly” shall be used as the
Common Seal.
Section 5—Administrative Area of
Assembly.
The area of authority of the
Assembly shall comprise the area
specified in the First Schedule to
this Instrument.
Section 6—Location of Principal
Office of Assembly.
The Assembly shall establish its
principal offices at Abura Dunkwa
where meetings of the Assembly
shall be held.
Section 7—Inaugural Meeting of
Assembly.
(1) The Assembly shall hold its
inaugural meeting on such date as
the Secretary shall with the prior
approval of the Council determine.
(2) The Presiding Member of the
Assembly shall be elected at the
inaugural meeting.
Section 8—Interpretation.
In
this Instrument, unless the
context otherwise requires—
"Council' means the Provisional
National Defence Council;
“ordinarily resident” has the
meaning assigned to it under
subsection (2) of section 16 of
the Local Government Law, 1988 (P.N.D.C.L.
207).
"Secretary" means the Provisional
National Defence Council Secretary
responsible for Local Government.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
LIST OF SETTLEMENT IN THE AREA OF
AUTHORITY OF THE ABRA/ASEBU /KWAMANKESE
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY
Town/Area Council Description of
Zone Description of Electoral
Area
ABURA/DUNKWA 1. Adumase
Adumase Zongo, Kwadowagya.
1. Adumase
Unit 1—Adumase
Adumase, Mangoase Areas
Unit 2—Zongo
Zongo, Adwenpaye Area
2.
Kwadowagya
Unit 3—Kwadowagya
Kwadowagya, Tetsi, Obusomadze
Village.
2. Obronkyew
Obronkyew, Kotukotue
3. Obronkyew
Unit 1—Obronkyew
Obronkyew, Mbaakrom, Anaafo Areas.
4.
Kotukotue
Unit 2—Kotukotue
Kotukotue, Ahenbronu
Areas.
MOREE 1. Inkom
Omanpado, Egwagadawmu Abakado,
Apam, Asaman, Old Court, Akoyimu
Etuei, Esrem. 5. Inkom
Unit 1—Omanpado
Omanpado, Asofoso, Amakyia,
Nkyindanho, Mpoanusom.
Unit 2—Eguadadawmu
Unit 3—Abakado
Unit 4—Apam Apatadze.
6. Old Court
Unit 5—Asaman
Unit 6—Old Court
Old Court Lower
Unit 7—Akoyimu
Unit 8—Etuei,
Etuei, Abokamano
Unit 9—Esrem
2. Bentsir
Bentsir, Esrem, Abananyim 7.
Bentsir
Unit 1—Bentsir
Unit 2—Esrem
Esrem, Afamana Msubowiw, Abananyim,
Esiwamyim.
8.
Abananyim
Unit 3—Abananyim
Abananyim, Atsakwa, Ibuanyim
Mpoanokwamu.
ALATA 3. Alata
Council Danho West, Council Danho
East, Mfaetsifi. 9. Alata
Unit 1—Council Danho West, Council
Danho East, Abremadzi, Asekyebedzi,
Brafoyaw.
Unit 2—Mfaetsifi
Mfaetsifi, Kwankyeanomanyim,
Mpoanokwanmu, Nguabado, Dowowuda,
Moree Junction.
ASEBU Asebu/Amantsindo
Asebu/Amantsindo, Oguaa,
Daman. 10. Asebu/Amantsindo
Unit 1—Asebu Amantsindo
Unit 2—Oguaa
Oguaa Compound
Unit 3—Daman
Daman, Zongo.
2. Old Ebu
Old Ebu, Ohiaba, Abuenu East,
Abuenu West, Brebia. 11.
Old Ebu
Unit 1—Old Ebu
Unit 2—Ohiaba,
Ohiaba, Matwemeho
Unit 3—Abuenu East
Unit 4—Abuenu West
Unit 5—Brebia
Brebia, Asaman.
3. Apewosika
Apewosika, Putubiw, Abasa, Srodofo.
12. Apewosika
Unit 1—Apewosika
Unit 2—Putubiw
Unit 3—Abasa
Unit 4—Srodofo
Srodofo, Patase, Fomaye, Wiamoa.
AMOSIMA 1. Amosima
Amosima East, Amosima West.
13. Amosima
Unit 1—Amosima East
Unit 2—Amosima West
Amosima West, Miensa, Akotwe.
2. Akroful
Akroful Upper, Akroful Lower,
Akroma, Akroma East. 14.
Akroful
Unit 1—Akroful Upper
Unit 2—Akroful Lower
Unit 3—Akroma
Unit 4—Akroma East.
ABURA/ETSIFI 1.
Kokomanpong
Aboase, Obohen, Odumase, Odonase.
15. Kokomanpong
Unit 1—Aboase
Unit 2—Obohen
Unit 3—Odumase Ekroful.
16. Odonase
Unit 4—Odonase
New Odonase, Old
Odonase.
2. Abura Gyabankrom
Abura Gyabankrom, Bando, Ekotsia.
17. Gyabankrom
Unit 1—Abura Gyabankrom
Abura Gyabankrom, Betsingwa.
Unit 2—Bando
Bando, Etsifi
Unit 3—Ekotsia
Ekotsia, Kokodo, Ekotsia Bonmu,
Kankanboumu.
3. Mpesiduadze
Mpesiduadze, Afrangwa, Obokor.
18. Mpesiduadze
Unit 1—Mpesiduadze
Mpesiduadze, Bintsingwa
Unit 2—Afrangwa
Unit 3—Obonkor
Obonkor, Asafona.
ABAKRAMPA 1. Abakrampa
East
Obronkyew, Mim 19.
Abakrampa East
Unit 1—Obronkyew Area
Unit 2—Mim
Mim Area, Nkenner Village.
2. Abakrampa West
Ahenbronmu, Okwaadu-
bronmu. 20.
Abakrampa West
Unit 1—Ahenbronmu Area
Unit 2—Okwaadubronmu
Okwaadubronmu Area and Mpuabonmu
Village.
3. New Ebu
Anaafo, Etsi 21. New Ebu
Unit 1—Anaafo
Dadzebanenyim Area, Esiwenyim
Area.
Unit 2—Etsifi
Amoaenyim Area, Odumase
Area.
4. Asuantsi
Asuantsi, Okyiriku
22. Asuantsi
Unit 1—Asuantsi
Asuantsi, Banianiha, Asebufokrom.
Unit 2—Okyiriku
Okyiriku, Oframasi, Obratwawu
Mahami Kankamkrom, Esuesu,
Nyamebekyere, Atomanyikrom,
Asomdwee, Brikukrom, Appakrom,
Bediakokrom, Essandokrom,
Baadukrom, Kwame Aboakrom,
Nkwantanan, Otakukrom, Kokode
Musekrom, Arkokrom.
5. Nyamedom
Nyamedom, Papagya, Obenkrom. 23.
Nyamedom
Unit 1—Nyamedom
Nyamedom Ensian,
Kokwado Dahom Kwame Ngyaw,
Kotokum.
Unit 2—Papagya
Papagya, Tsit, Sikaasumu, Amoakrom,
Yaw Sekyikrom.
Unit 3—Obenkrom
Asemase, Odumase, Obenkrom,
Thompsonkrom, Kwesi Donkorkrom,
Egya Amoakwakrom, Kobina
Nyarkokrom, Besiekrom, Aboakyekrom,
Tetteikrom, Amoakrom, Kojo
Sekyikrom, Kweku Nyamekrom, Kofi
Attakrom, Teikrom, Kojo Mensahkrom.
AYELDU 1. Ayeldu
North, South, Odompo, Sekyerew.
24. Ayeldu
Unit 1—North
Kadadwen Area, Matsemankabi Area.
Unit 2—South
Ahenbrom Area, Matwemoho Area.
Unit 3—Odompo
Unit 4—Sekyerew
Sekyerew, Apapondo.
2. Kwaman
Kwaman, Abonpi, Bosomin.
25. Kwaman
Unit 1—Kwaman
Kwaman, Patuako
Unit 2—Abonpi
Abonpi Nyamenaonyim, Ahomfie No.
2.
Unit 3—Bosomin
Bosomin, Kakanasi, Frenyi,
Nyamebekyere.
3. Koradu
Koradu,Akesigua, Katakyiase,
Mantsemankabi, Katakyiase Old
Town. 26. Koradu
Unit 1—Koradu
Unit 2—Akesigua
Akesigua, Kurowdadamu
Unit 3—Katakyiase Matsemankabi
Matsemankabi Area, Katakyiase.
Unit 4—Katakyiase Old Town
Old Town Area, Bedenegya Village,
Idankrom, Techiman.
NYANFUEKU-EKROFUL 1. Edumfa
Edumfa, Abaka, Egyirkrom 27.
Edumfa
Unit 1—Edumfa
Unit 2—Abaka
Unit 3—Egyirkrom
Egyirkrom, Odumekyir.
2. Nyanfueku-Ekroful
Nyanfueku-Ekroful, Gyandokrom,
Tayido. 28.
Nyanfueku-Ekroful
Unit 1—Nyanfueku-Ekroful
Unit 2—Gyandokrom
Unit 3—Tayido
Tayido, Abura Denkyira, Pra Ewusi,
Atwerboanda, Asomdwee.
3. Batanya
Batanya, Wusorkrom
29. Batanya
Unit 1—Batanya
Abura, Batanya
Unit 2—Wusorkrom
Amoanda, Wusorkrom.
4. Tuakwa
Tuakwa, Empiro, Enyinabirim
30. Tuakwa
Unit 1—Tuakwa
Tuakwa, Odonkua
Unit 2—Empiro
Empiro, Ahumfie No. 1, Mesehoo.
Unit 3—Enyinabirim
Enyinabirim, Afonakrom, Aboka.
SECOND SCHEDULE
FUNCTIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY
It
shall be the duty of the Assembly—
1.
To promote and safeguard public
health and for this purpose the
Ministry of Health shall assign
Medical Officers of Health, health
inspectors and other staff as
appropriate except semi-skilled
and unskilled labourers to the
District Assembly for the proper
discharge of this duty.
2.
To cause their District to be
inspected regularly for the
detection of nuisance or any
condition likely to be offensive
or injurious to health.
3.
If satisfied that any nuisance or
any condition likely to be
offensive or injurious to health
exists, to cause all proper steps
to be taken to secure the
abatement of the nuisance or the
removal of the condition.
4.
To ensure the provision of
adequate and wholesome supply of
water throughout the entire
District in consultation with the
Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation.
5.
To establish, install, build,
maintain and control public
latrines, lavatories, urinals and
wash places.
6.
To establish, maintain and carry
out services for the removal of
night-soil from any building and
for the destruction and treatment
of such night-soil.
7.
To establish, maintain and carry
out services for the removal and
destruction of all refuse, filth
and carcasses of dead animals from
any public or private place.
8.
To regulate any trade or business
which may be noxious or injurious
to public health or a source of
danger to the public or which
otherwise it is in the public
interest to regulate.
9.
To provide for the inspection of
all meat, fish, vegetables and all
other foodstuffs and liquids of
whatever kind or nature intended
for human consumption whether
exposed for sale or not; and to
seize, destroy and otherwise deal
with all such foodstuffs or
liquids as are unfit for human
consumption and to supervise and
control the manufacture of
foodstuffs and liquids of whatever
kind or nature intended for human
consumption.
10. To provide, maintain,
supervise and control
slaughter-houses and pounds and
all such matters and things as may
be necessary for the convenient
use of such slaughter-houses.
11. To prevent and deal with the
outbreak or the prevalence of any
disease.
12. To prevent the spread of and
exterminate tsetse-fly,
mosquitoes, rats, bugs and other
vermin.
13. To prohibit or regulate the
making of borrow-pits or other
excavations.
14. To establish and maintain
cemeteries.
15. To provide crematoria where in
the opinion of the Assembly it is
expedient so to do.
16. To regulate or prohibit the
sinking of wells and provide for
the closing of wells.
17. To establish, maintain and
control pounds, seize and impound
any stray animal and provide for
the payment of compensation for
damage done by such animal.
18. To provide that the owner or
occupier of any land or tenements
maintain, clear and keep free from
vegetation, the roads, streets or
paths adjoining his land or
tenements.
19. To provide for the control,
destruction and licensing of dogs.
20. To provide for the control,
regulation, inspection,
supervision and licensing of—
(i)
social halls, dance halls and
places of entertainment;
(ii) lodging and eating houses;
(iii) any premises or land in or
upon which any profession,
occupation, trade or business is
carried on;
(iv) such occupations as the
Secretary may specify in an
Instrument from time to time.
21. To establish and operate
Clinics and Dressing Stations in
consultation with the Ministry of
Health.
22. To construct, repair and
maintain and keep clean all
streets.
23. To divert or alter where
necessary the course of any
street.
24. To provide or arrange for
electric lighting in streets and
other public places and where
necessary to provide and maintain
electricity supply in consultation
with the Electricity Corporation.
25. To construct, repair and
maintain all public roads other
than trunk roads but including
feeder roads and to undertake road
rehabilitation programmes within
the district.
26. To prescribe the conditions
subject to which the erection and
construction, demolition,
re-erection, and re-construction,
conversion and re-conversion,
alteration, repair, sanitation and
ventilation of public and private
buildings and structures may be
undertaken and carried out.
27. To provide for building lines
and the layout of buildings, to
prepare and undertake and
otherwise control schemes for
improved housing layout and
settlement.
28. To prescribe the conditions to
be satisfied on a site for any
building or for any class of
building.
29. To prohibit the construction
of any new building unless and
until the plans thereof have been
submitted to and approved by the
Assembly.
30. To provide for the demolition
of dangerous buildings and for the
recovery of any expenses incurred
in connection therewith.
31. To maintain, as agents of
Central Government, all public
buildings, including prestige
buildings put up by the Central
Government and previously
maintained by the Public works
Department.
32. To maintain as agents of the
Ghana Highway Authority, trunk
roads lying within the boundaries
of the area of authority of the
Assembly.
33. To take steps to ensure the
effective maintenance of all
Government properties within its
area of authority.
34. To prohibit or regulate the
use in any defined area of any
inflammable material in the
construction or repair of any
building.
35. To control and regulate the
siting of advertisements and
hoardings or other structures
designed for the display of
advertisements.
36. To build, equip, open, close
and maintain markets, prohibit the
erection of stalls in places other
than markets and prevent the sale
and purchase of goods or stock
near established markets or
elsewhere.
37. To fix days and hours during
each day on which a market may be
held and prevent the sale and
purchase of goods in markets on
any day or at any hour except
those fixed.
38. To regulate and control
markets including the fixing of
and collection of stallages, rents
and tolls.
39. (1) To require the owner of
any premises to do any of the
following acts—
(i)
to remove, lower or trim to the
satisfaction of the Assembly any
tree, shrub or hedge overhanging
or interfering in any way with the
traffic in any street or with any
wires or works thereof;
(ii) to remove any dilapidated
fence or structure abutting on any
public place;
(iii) to paint, distemper,
white-wash or colour-wash the
outside walls or roof of any
building forming part of the
premises;
(iv) to tidy the premises; and
(v) to move any derelict car or
other vehicles.
(2) In the event of the owner
failing to comply with a notice
from the Assembly requiring him to
perform any of the acts specified
in sub-paragraph (1) (i-v) the
Assembly shall be at liberty to
undertake the work and charge the
owner with the cost thereof.
40. To build, equip and maintain
all public primary, middle and
special schools as are in the
opinion of the Secretary for
Education, after consultation with
the Secretary responsible for
Local Government, required in its
area.
41. To advise the Secretary for
Education on all matters relating
to primary and middle schools and
such other matters as may be
referred to it by the Secretary
for Education.
42. To be responsible for—
(i)
postings and transfers within its
area of authority of teachers
including pupil teachers;
(ii) keeping records of teachers;
(iii) discipline of teachers in
accordance with the disciplinary
code laid down by the Ghana
Education Service;
(iv) appointment of school welfare
officers;
(v) recommending teachers for
study leave;
(vi) appointment of headteachers
in accordance with rules laid down
by the Ghana Education Service;
(vii) supervision of primary and
middle schools;
(viii) formation of education
committees;
(ix) collection of statistical
data and other information;
(x) in-service training for pupil
teachers;
(xi) nursery school education;
(xii) approval of the opening of
private primary and middle
schools;
(xiii) payment of teachers'
salaries from funds made available
by Government;
(xiv) indenting for the supply and
distribution of textbooks;
(xv) disbursement of Education
Grants.
43. To provide for the control and
regulation of—
(i)
concerts, musical or theatrical
performances, cinemas, fairs,
circuses and other entertainments
to which admission is to be
obtained on payment of money or of
any reward, except where the whole
proceeds are being devoted to
charity;
(ii) horse-racing meetings.
44. To grant and maintain
scholarships or bursaries to
suitable persons to attend any
school or other educational
institution in Ghana or elsewhere.
45. To provide for the
establishment and maintenance of
facilities for arts and crafts,
for recreation and sport.
46. To establish, maintain,
control and contribute to bands
for musical performances in public
places and at functions arranged
by the Assembly, and generally to
provide musical entertainment in
such places and at such functions.
47. To arrange for the provision
of public libraries in
consultation with the Ghana
Library Board.
48. With the prior approval of the
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board,
to control the disposal of any
African antique work of art.
49. To organise community
development programmes to improve
and enrich rural life through
running literacy and adult
education classes, organising
voluntary contributions and
communal labour for the provision
of such facilities and services as
water supplies, roads school
buildings, community centres, and
public places of convenience; and
teaching village women the
management of home and care of
children.
50. To take such measures as would
promote the well-being of under-priviledged
children and the stability of the
distressed family.
51. To organise and maintain
child-care centres and ensure the
proper running and management of
such centres.
52. To establish, run and manage
children's homes and offer
parental care for the deprived,
namely, orphans and those that are
neglected or abandoned.
53. To render relief services
during natural disasters, e.g.
floods, fire, earthquakes,
accidents, in the form of supply
of material.
54. To be responsible for the
improvement of agriculture
including extension services and
allotments for agricultural
purposes.
55. To control methods of
husbandry.
56. To allocate land in the
ownership of the Assembly for
farming purposes and to regulate
the system of farming of such
land.
57. To provide services for the
improvement of livestock.
58. To prevent and control animal
diseases.
59. To prohibit, restrict or
regulate the hunting, capture,
killing or sale of animals
or
birds or any specified kind of
animal or bird.
60. To provide for measures for
soil and water conservation.
61. To provide for the fencing of
land and for the maintenance and
repair of such fences.
62. To take every step to
encourage persons to plant
specified crops for the
maintenance of themselves and
their families.
63. To plant trees in any street
and to erect tree-guards to
protect the same; provided
that the streets shall not be
unduly obstructed thereby.
64. To regulate or prohibit the
planting, cutting, tapping, or
destruction of any trees or
vegetation growing along any
street, road or path or in any
public place.
65. To establish and manage, on
commercial basis, rural and
small-scale industries and farms.
66. To promote tourism in the
District in co-operation with the
Regional Development Corporation
and the Tourist Development Board.
67. Subject to the control and
direction of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths to register all
births and deaths occurring within
the District.
68. To appoint in consultation
with the Registrar of Births and
Deaths such registration staff as
may be necessary for the proper
discharge of births and deaths
registration duties.
69. To make such financial
contribution as the Assembly deems
necessary for the maintenance of
any traditional authority which
possesses any functions which
relate to any part of its area.
70. To establish and maintain tree
nurseries and forest plantation
and sell the produce thereof.
71. Compile and maintain a record
of all tenant farmers and the
rents and tribute which should be
paid by them.
72. To prohibit or restrict the
driving or use of vehicles
generally or any specified class
on any specified road or specified
direction on any specified road.
73. To regulate the use and
conduct of public vehicles, to
regulate routes and parking places
to be used by such vehicles to
appropriate particular routes,
roads, streets, and parking places
to specified classes of traffic
and when necessary to provide the
identification of licensed
vehicles as defined in the Motor
Traffic Ordinance.
74. To license any vehicle used
for taxi, bicycle, motor bicycle
and to prescribe the fees to be
paid in respect of any such
bicycle or vehicle.
75. To establish, acquire and
maintain transport services by
land or water including ferries.
76. To establish, and maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles.
77. To establish, and maintain in
consultation with the Posts and
Telecommunication Corporation,
Postal Agencies where necessary.
78. To lay down rules and
regulations in respect of private
and public property to ensure
adequate fire protection.
79. To prevent and control fire
outbreaks including bush fires.
80. To promote the development of
all sports within the area of
authority of the Assembly.
81. To organise sports activities
within its area of authority and
to provide such facilities as may
be recommended by the national
body responsible for sports.
82. To perform as agents of the
national body responsible for
sports in maintaining such sports
facilities as may be assigned to
it by the national body.
83. To advise, to the exclusion of
all others, on all matters of
sports relating to its area of
authority.
84.To prohibit, restrict, regulate
and license the manufacture
distillation, sale transportation
distribution, supply, possession
and consumption of akpeteshie,
palmwine, and all kinds of
description of fermented liquor
usually made by citizens of Ghana
or adjacent countries.
85. To license petrol service and
filling stations within the
District.
86. To provide information
centres, where necessary in
consultation with the Ministry of
Information.
KWAMENA AHWOI
P.N.D.C. Secretary for Local
Government
Date of Gazette Notification: 30th
December, 1988.
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