Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, the Minister-designate, Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, announced this when he appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament in Accra on Tuesday.

He added that there would also be a platform to bring together all former Local Government Ministry ministers to support the planning of the various assemblies' development.

The nominee was of the belief that the development of the assemblies should not revolve around the MMDCEs alone but must be a collaborative effort of the stakeholders in the area.

Mr Ibrahim, also the Member of Parliament for Banda in the Bono Region, said upon approval, he would work towards ensuring radical shift of mindset at the various assemblies no matter the cost to rally the human resource in the area to accelerate development.

"The Ministry will deepen ethical efficiency and good governance at the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies," Mr Ibrahim stated.

Commenting on his plans to increase revenue for the local assemblies, he said his outfit would promote the automation of revenue mobilisation drive to curb leakage.

To that end, he said, government would engage national service personnel to collect revenue at the various assemblies and based on their performance, they would retain them as permanent staff or otherwise.