In fulfillment of part of the reset agenda on decentralisation, government, through the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has released an amount of GHS 23,621,000, being payment of allowances for District Assemblies to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.
Being part of the frontline men and women that represent government at the local level, the President believes thatit is prudent to ensure the welfare of the members so they can deliver on the President’s mandate and use the resources allocated to the Assemblies for its specific goal.
At a press conference on Monday, 14th July, 2025 at the Ministry’s conference room, the Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim, reiterated that government’s move is aimed at improving service delivery at the local level as the former status quo had impacted negatively on the performance of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
It is for this reason, he said, that President John Dramani Mahama has committed eighty percent (80%) of the District Assemblies Common Fund to MMDAs, adding that government allocated One Hundred Million Ghana Cedis (GHS 100,000,000) in the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy aimed at paying all the nine thousand and eighty- five (9,085) Assembly Members across the two hundred and sixty - one districts.
Hon. Ibrahim mentioned that out of the GHS 100,000,000, the Ministry of Finance had released twenty - five million Ghana Cedis (GHS 25,000,000) as payment for the months of April and May. He stressed that each assembly member receiving one thousand three hundred Ghana cedis (GHS 1,300) as their monthly allowance, and thus with the current release, each assembly member was entitled to Two-Thousand, Six Hundred Ghana Cedis (GHS 2,600.00).
He further noted that government will deepen its commitments to MMDAs as part of the resetting and decentralisation agenda to provide adequate resources and logistics at the local level to promote effective service delivery.
Source: Chantal Aidoo
Public Relations Unit, MLGCRA