After Budgetary Session : SW Regional Assembly To Begin Field Work

Some FCFA 2.750.000.000 has been adopted as budget to run the affairs of the South West Regional Assembly for 2021. This was done during a budgetary session of 2-4 June, 2021. The budget which is balanced in income and expenditure will invest FCFA 1.565.000.000 and run the Regional expenses with FCFA 1.185.000.000.
Although coming at the middle of the year, the budget will prepare the 90 elected manpower of the Regional Assembly to comb across the 25.410 square kilometres of South West land area. The South West Region habours a population of 1.842.516 inhabitants spread through six administrative Divisions of Fako, Kupe Muanenguba, Lebialem, Manyu, Meme, and Ndian.
As the budgetary session ended deliberations last Friday, the Executive President of the South West Regional Assembly, Zacheus Bakoma Elango, explained that, with the means available, the executive arm of the Assembly would incessantly go down to the field to meet the population. While on the ground, he stressed, they will seek opinions from the hinterlands, survey development needs and plant sign posts for development.
In his statement, the South West Governor and representative of the State, Bernard Okalia Bilai, praised the Regional Assembly for their work and urged them to sell the important Regional institution to the general public for its worthy potentials. The Governor explained that the regional Assembly with special status could serve many aspirations of the people administratively and developmentally.
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