Gomoa District Chief Executive (DCE) Ms Joyce M. Aidoo has expressed concern about the disregard for time by the people in the district. She noted that there is the need for the people to change their attitude towards mismanagement of time because it affects productivity. Ms Aidoo said this when she addressed a durbar of chiefs and the people of Oguaakrom to climax their Annual Akwanbo festival. "Gomoa people are their own enemies and they need to reverse that negative trend to help improve their living standards". According to the DCE the people of Oguaakrom invited her to address a durbar at 1.00 p.m. on Sunday January 20, 2007, but when she arrived with her encourage some few minutes to the time the people had not arrived and therefore met empty chairs. She said this apathy and disregard of time has also been shown by the people of most communities in the district at similar functions and called for change of such attitude. The DCE attributed the abject poverty facing most of the people in district to the mismanagement of time. "Whether you are a government worker, farmer, business man or woman you should work and do things within the stipulated time so that productivity would be increased to reduce poverty". She called on the youth especially the educated ones to learn how to disseminate information to their parents to enable them understand policies and programmes of the government. Ms Aidoo appealed to the youth to educate the communities in which they live in on the need to pay their taxes and tolls regularly to the Gomoa District Assembly to enable the assembly to undertake more development projects. The DCE said the Gomoa Assembly is unable to meet its annual budget target of the Internal Generated Fund (IGF) because of the peoples' refusal to honour their tax obligation. Nana Oguaa Dompo X, the Chief of Oguaakrom appealed to the Ghana Highways Authority to erect speed ramps at the town to reduce the rate of vehicles knocking down people. He said since the past three years more than 15 people including children had been knocked down and killed by vehicles in the town on the Winneba-Agona Swedru road. Nana Dompo said the chiefs and the people would not like to take the law into their hands and erect the ramps themselves and hoped that action would be taken on their request. Source: GNA