Veep suggests the need to wean MMDA's off District Assemblies Common Fund  
   
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has suggested the need to stop the disbursement of the District Assemblies Common Fund to all Metropolitan and Municipal Assemblies that can generate their own funds. 

This he said, will enable the fund to be used as catalyst to develop the deprived district assemblies. 

The Vice President said this when the Global Chief Executive and President of the Hunger Project conferred with him at the Flagstaff House in Accra. 

He said the government has committed substantial resources to the road sector to open up the country and also enable farmers to cart their produce to the urban centres. 

The Hunger Project has been working in Ghana since 1996, three years after awarding its coveted Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger to former President Rawlings in 1993. 

The award was accompanied with 50 thousand dollars, which the former President used as a seed money to establish the University for Development Studies in Tamale. 

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur said food security is critical to national development efforts. 

He said the time has come to have a second look at the District Assemblies Common Fund so that it can be used as a catalyst to develop the deprived district assemblies. 

The Country Director of the Hunger Project, Samuel Afrane said the project is working in 32 districts across five regions. 

The Global Chief Executive and President of the Hunger Project, Alsha Feldt, said the Project will continue to work in Africa to help realize the continent's agenda of ending hunger by 2025. 

Vice President Amissah-Arthur later had a close door discussion with Mrs Feldt and other officials of the Hunger Project.

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