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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 23rd day of December
1988.
Section 1—Establishment of
Assembly.
There is hereby established a
District Assembly to be known as
the West Mamprusi 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.
The Assembly shall consist of not
more than fifty-five persons which
shall be made up of—
(a) the District Secretary;
(b) thirty-six 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 eighteen 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
grouping 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
sub-paragraph (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 West
Mamprusi 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 office at Walewale 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
LISTS OF SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA
OF AUTHORITY OF THE WEST MAMPRUSI
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY.
Town/Area Council Description of
Zone Description of Electoral
Area
WALEWALE 1. Walewale
Bokuduri, Fongni, Moshiefong,
Zongo. 1. Bokuduri
Unit 1—Bokuduri
Walewale: North of Walewale to
Wungu Road Bokuduri Section.
2. Fongni
Unit 2—Fongni
Walewale: North of Walewale to
Wungu Road, Fongni, Section.
3. Moshiefong
Unit 3—Moshiefong
Walewale Town: Lying to the South
of Walewale-Wungu Road and East of
Tamale Bolgatanga Road, MoshieFong.
4. Zongo
Unit 4—Zongo
Walewale Town: Lying to the South
of Walewale-Wungu Road and East of
Tamale- Bolgatanga Road, Zongo.
2. Walewale-North
Walewale-North, Nayoko, Kperiga,
Tianoba. 5. Walewale-North
Unit 1—Walewale-North
Walewale-north: Tampolungu and
Sabaafong.
6. Nayoko
Unit 2—Nayoko
Nayoko, Banawa,
Gaagbini.
7. Tianoba
Unit 3—Kperiga
Unit 4—Tianoba
Tianoba, Buguyapala, Bugu-Yakura.
WUNGU 1. Wungu
Wungu, Naboofong,
Naatalafong, Yoma Loagri No. 2,
Moshio, Soo, Prima, Wuyima.
8. Wungu
Unit 1—Wungu
Wungu Town:
Nayilifong, Zangu Yakura.
9. Naboofong
Unit 2—Naboofong
Nungu Town: Naboofong.
Unit 3—Naatafong
Wungu Town: Naatala-Fong.
10. Moshio
Unit 4—Yoma
Bulbia, Binbini, Yama
Unit 5—Loagri No. 2
Loagri No. 2, Kukua No. 2.
Unit 6—Moshio
Moshio, Zua.
11. Wuyima
Unit 7—Soo
Soo, Kusobi,
Unit 8—Prima
Prima, Bugyinga.
Unit 9—Wuyima.
YAGABA 1. Yagaba
Yagaba, Logri No. 1, Sakpaba
12. Yagaba
Unit 1—Yagaba
Yagaba, Goriba
Unit 2—Logri No. 1
Logri No. 1 Kuuba
Unit 3—Sakpaba.
YIZESI 1. Yizesi
Yizesi, Yizebisi, Tantala,
Dabozesi- T a n t a l a,
Mugu-Tantala, Nagruma. 13.
Yizesi
Unit 1—Yizesi
Yizesi Town
Unit 2—Yizebisi
Yizebisi, Digarigi.
14. Tantala
Unit 3—Tantala, Tandow, Kugusabla
Zukpeni.
Unit 4—Dabozesi-Tantala
Dabozesi, Tivuu, Barisi.
Unit 5—Mugu-Tantala Mugu.
Unit 6—Nagruma.
KUBORI 1. Kubori
Kubori,
Kugugu, Kubagna. 15. Kubori
Unit 1—Kubori
Kubori, Gombongu, Gbima.
Unit 2—Kugugu
Kugugu-Kunkori
Yirangu, Lunsi.
Unit 3—Kubagna
Kubagna, Jaari, Kantim, Namoo, No.
2.
KUKUA 1. Kukua
Kukua, Kukua-Nyabilsa
Kukua-Jindina, Kukua-Agbetereri,
Katigiri, Jadema. 16. Kukua
Unit 1—Kukua
Kukua No.1, Zanloo
Unit 2—Kukua-Nyabilsa
Nyabilsa
Unit 3—Kukua-Jindina Jindina.
Unit 4—Kukua-Agbetereri
Agbeteyeri.
Unit 5—Katigiri
Unit 6—Jadema
Jadema, Bugyliga.
KPASENKPE 1. Kpasenkpe
Kpasenkpe, Dagbonfong, Duu,
Kinkandina, Punkpun-Gbariga Arigi.
17. Kpasenkpe
Unit 1—Kpasenkpe
Kpasenkpe Chief's Section 1 & 2,
Janjia, Kpasalima, Arba.
Unit 2—Dagbonfong
Kpasenkpe, Dagbonfong and Health
Centre Area.
Unit 3—Duu
Duu, Jagsi.
18. Kinkandina
Unit 4—Kinkandina
Unit 5—Punkpun-Gbariga
Punkpungbariga, Bunkpurugu, Nabari,
Unit 6—Arigu
Arigu.
JANGA 1. Janga
Janga, Kiyisigi, Salugu,
Livim Chama, Fungu, Fio, Nakpaya,
Daboya, Namuu, Kpatorigu Kikaayili.
19. Janga
Unit 1—Janga
Janga, Wawa.
Unit 2—Kiyisigi
Janga-Kuyisigi.
Unit 3—Salugu
Janga-Salugu
Unit 4—Livim
Janga-Livim.
20. Chama
Unit 5—Chama
Chama, Namoo No. 1
Unit 6—Fungu
Fungu, Sakori
Unit 7—Fio
Fio No. 1 & 2
Unit 8—Nakpaya
Nakpaya.
21. Daboya
Unit 9—Daboya
Soba, Tiya, Daboya, Zoligu
Unit 10—Mamuu
Namuu, Licha
Unit 11—Kpatorigu
Unit 12—Kikaayili.
KPARIGU 1. Nasia-Kparigu
Nasia,
Nabulugu, Boakudoo Kparigu,
Selinvoya, Takorayili. 22.
Nasia
Unit 1—Nasia
Nasia, Yankazia.
23. Nabulugu
Unit 2—Nabulugu, Nabulkura,
Binduri.
24. Boakudoo
Unit 3—Boakudo
Boakudoo, Tawariga No. 1 Zagsilari.
25. Kparigu
Unit 4—Kparigu
Kparigu, Bogmasa, Tawariga No. 2.
26. Selinvoya
Unit 5—Selinvoya.
27. Takorayili
Unit 6—Takorayili
TINGURI 1. Tinguri
Tinguri, Diana, Kurugu, Manga,
Guabuliga, Mimima. 28.
Tinguri
Unit 1—Tinguri
Gbani, Tinguri, Gbeduri, Kpabugu,
Nabisiyiri.
29. Diana
Unit 2—Diana
Diana, Dimia, Tinkaya.
30. Kurugu
Unit 3—Kurugu
Kurugu, Kurugu-Legri, Yasinga.
31. Manga
Unit 4—Manga
32. Guabuliga
Unit 5—Guabuliga.
33. Mimina
Unit 6—Mimina
Mimina, Boguyiri.
34. Gbimsi
Unit 1—Wulugu-Gbimsi
Gbimsi Town, Sandamfong, Sayoo.
GBIMSI 1. Wulugu/Gbimsi
Gbimsi, Zangum Wulugu, Gbeo.
35. Wulugu
Unit 2—Zangum
Unit 3—Wulugu, Nabari, Kariminga.
36. Gbeo
Unit 4—Gbeo
Gbeo, Kparikpari, Kpatusi Kulinga.
SECOND SCHEDULE
FUNCTIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY
It shall be the duty of the
Assembly—
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 the 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 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; or
(v) to remove any derelict car
or other vehicle.
(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 for 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 sports.
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-privileged 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, fires, 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-guard 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 tree 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. To 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, maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles.
77. To establish and maintain in
consultation with the Posts and
Telecommunications 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, palm-wine, and all
kinds or 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 Responsible for
Local Government
Date of Gazette Notification: 4th
August, 1989.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BONGO DISTRICT
ASSEMBLY) (ESTABLISHMENT)
INSTRUMENT, 1988 (LI 1446).
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 23rd day of December,
1988.
Section 1—Establishment of
Assembly.
There is hereby established a
District Assembly to be known as
the Bongo 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 fifty-five persons
which shall be made up of:
(a) the District Secretary;
(b) thirty-six 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 eighteen 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
Functions of District Assemblies
by the Local Government Law, 1988
(P.N.D.C.L. 207).
(2) Without prejudice to
sub-paragraph (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 Common
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 Bongo
District Assembly" shall be used
as the Common Seal.
Section 5—Administrative Area of
Assembly.
The area of authority of the
Assembly shall be 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 Bongo 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 SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA OF
AUTHORITY OF THE BONGO DISTRICT
ASSEMBLY.
Town/Area Council Description of
Zone Description of Electoral
Area
BONGO 1. Bongo
Bongo, Anafobisi, Adaborobisi.
1. Bongo-Atampisi
Unit 1—Bongo
Asankabisi, Belinkungo,
Bongo Kuyelingo, Atampisi.
2. Bongo-Gobisi
Unit 2—Anafobisi
Anafobisi, Alangiigonisi,
Atambisi, Gobisi.
3. Akunduo
Unit 3—Adaborobisi
Adaborobisi, Wegurigo, Bunbangsi,
Akunduo.
2. Gorigo
Gorigo, Kunkua 4. Gorigo
Unit 1—Gorigo
Gorigo, Agunabisi, awuabisi,
Adabsabisi, Gantose, Ataweisi.
5. Kunkua
Unit 2—Kunkua
Kunkua, Apaspangabisi, Aluribabisi,
Daaliga.
3. Dua 6.
Dua-Yikine
Unit 1—Dua,
Dua, Avoyabisi, Yidama, Akulembisi,
Tadongo, Apuwong
Unit 2—Yikine
Yikine, Apuamabisi, Asunsuabisi,
Alinabibi, Akandikabisi
4. Borigo 7.
Borigo
Borigo Unit
1—Borigo
Borigo, Nabisi, Atubigabisi,
Alemborobisi.
5. Apatanga 8.
Apatanga
Apatanga, Atampinti
Unit 1—Apatanga
Apatanga,
Asibiga,
Buntua
9. Atampinti
Unit 2—Atampinti
Atampinti, Ameatiayoko, Aliban,
Asorka.
NAMOO 1. Namoo 10.
Namoo-Nabisi
Namoo, Seketarabisi,
Akunka-Akumpabisi. Unit 1—Namoo
Namoo-Nabisi,
Yaka, Amokobisi.
Unit 2—Seketarabisi
Seketarabisi, Sakulisi
11. Akunka-Akumpabisi
Unit 3—Akunka-Akumpabisi
2. Samboligo
12. Samboligo-Abokobisi
Samboligo, Amanga,
kanso Unit 1—Samboligo
Samboligo-Nabisi, Asikabisi
Abokobisi
13. Amanga
Unit 2—Amanga
Amanga, Aloyabisi, Ayopea, Amanga,
Aloyabisi, Kobulungo, Adokobisi.
14. Kansoe
Unit 3—Kansoe.
3. Boko 15.
Boko
Boko, Peo, Akumogbisi,
Sapeeba Unit 1—Boko
Boko, Abagnabisi, Tindongo,
Amirabisi, Akumbilimbisi,
Aberogobisi
16. Peo-Akumogbisi
Unit 2—Peo
Peo-Nabisi, Asabinabisi,
Unit 3—Akumogbisi
Akumogbisi, Asiemabisi.
17. Sapeeba
Unit 4—Sapeeba
Sapeeba, Azurebisi.
SOE 1. Soe 18.
Soe-Tamolga
Soe, Asamwiabisi,
Awokabisi. Unit 1—Soe Adabae,
Yidongo, Akansiringa, Tamolga
19. Asamwiabisi
Unit 2—Asamwiabisi
Asamwiabisi, Sanabisi, Akulyoo,
Kabre, Akiribisi.
20. Awokabisi
Unit 3—Awokabisi
Awokabisi, Akanimbisi, Soboko.
BEO 1. Beo 21.
Beo-Tankoo
Beo Unit 1—Beo
Beo, Nabisi, Tankoo, Kumbusigo.
2. Dusobligo 22.
Dusobligo
Dusobligo, Moshie
Daboro. Unit 1—Dusobligo
Dusobligo, Saporo, Kansigo
Unit 2—Moshie-Daboro
Moshie-Daboro, Waliga, Lembi
3. Adaboya 23.
Adaboya
Adaboya, Sidoro
Unit 1—Adaboya
Adaboya, Nabisi,
Amorobisi Akutabongo.
Unit 2—Sidoro
Sidoro, Nabisi, Amorobisi, Kunkua.
GOWRIE 1. Gowrie 24.
Gowrie-Agongobisi
Gowrie, Agongobisi
Unit 1—Gowrie
Gowrie, Abileabisi, Kpanakunkua,
Adaborti.
Unit 2—Agongobisi
Agongobisi, Kansingo, Tengre.
2. Vea 25.
Vea
Vea, Azangongo
Unit 1—Vea
Vea, Agongadanabisi, Asoedanabisi,
Akungrebisi.
Unit 2—Asangongo
Asangongo, Kolipeliga
3. Nyariga 26.
Nyariga
Nyariga, Ayumadoni
Unit 1—Nyariga
Nyariga, Anokorbisi, Ponteesin,
Gongabisi.
Unit 2—Ayumadoni
Ayumadoni, Amikabisi,
Tengreagandaa, Abikodoni.
BALUNGU 1. Balungu 27.
Balungu-Doone
Balungu, Doone
Unit 1—Balungu
Akosiabisi,Awuabisi, Balungu
Unit 2—Doone
Doone, Tadana, Agoo-Boor.
2. Luugu 28.
Lungu
Lugu, Nabisi, Atoabisi, Doone,
Namoosi.
3. Nayorigu
Nayorigu, Bungu 29.
Nayorigu
Unit 1—Nayorigu
Nagorigu, Nabisi, Agungabisi,
Avooru-
bisi.
Unit 2—Bugnu
Amatengabisi, Bungu, Amotingabisi,
Abenditabisi
ZORKOR 1. Tarongo 30.
Tarongo Atiabisi
Tarongo, Bagenmegabisi,
Atiabisi. Unit 1—Tarongo
Aboosebisi, Asaarebisi,
Unit 2—Bagenmegabisi
Bagenmegabisi, Abugumzeobisi
Unit 3—Atiabisi
Atiabisi, Akonsigebisi,
Agurebabisi, Abisigubisi.
2. Gamboringo
31. Ganboringo
Gamboringo, Adukobisi
Unit 1—Gamboringo
Agoobsi, Azaabisi.
Unit 2—Adukobisi
Adukobisi, Aborbisi.
3. Kanga 32.
Kanga
Kanga, Abangabisi
Unit 1—Kanga
Kuntoebisi, Tindongo, Kanga
Unit 2—Abangabisi
Abangabisi, Kanseelisi.
4. Kodorogo 33.
Kodorogo
Kodorogo Unit 1—Kodorogo
Asanabisi, Aneeabisi, Amolifebisi,
Kodorogo.
5. Kadare 34.
Kadare
Kadare, Abagnabisi
Unit 1—Kadare
Azangabisi, Aberingabisi,
Kadare
Unit 2—Abagnabisi
Abagnabisi, Akonseebisi.
6. Goo 35.
Goo
Goo, Asaweribisi
Unit 1—Goo
Wiraasi, Ayorebisi, Apuligabis
Unit 2—Asaweribisi
Asaweribisi, Abitobisi,
Adendedeobisi.
7. Awaah 36.
Awaah
Awaah Unit
1—Awaah
Awinibisi, Ayamdoobisi, Aurugubisi,
Awaah.
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 others 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 nuisances 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 nuisances or the
removal of the condition.
4. To ensure the provision of
adequate and wholesome supply of
water through out the entire
District in consultation with the
Chana 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 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 oi
injurious tc) public health or a
source of danger to the public or
which otherwise is in the public
interest to regulate.
9. To provide for the inspection
of all meat, fish, vegetables and
all other food-stuffs and liquid
of whatever kind or nature
intended for human consumption
whether exposed for sale or not;
and to seize, ecstroy and
otherwise deal with all such
foodstuffs or liquid as are unfit
for human consumption and to
supervise and control manufactures
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 burrow-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 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
sitting 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 njukets and other than
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 of and
collection of stallages, rents and
tells.
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 vehicle.
(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 matter 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 f 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;
(xi) 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 service 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 he responsible for the
improvement of agriculture
including extension services and
allotments for agricultural
purposes.
55. To control method 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 errect tree-guard to
protect the same: Provided that he
streets shall not be unduly
obstructed thereby.
64. To regulate or prohibit the
planting, cutting tapping or
destruction of any tree 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. To compile and maintain a
record of all tenant farmers and
the rents and tributes 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 furies.
76. To establish, maintain and
control parks for motor and other
vehicles.
77. To establish and maintain in
consultation with the Posts and
Telecommunications 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 sport.
82. To perform as agents of the
national body responsible for
sports in maintains 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, palm-wine, and all
kinds or 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: 21st
July, 1989.
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