According to him, such assemblies lack the basic economic guarantees,  infrastructural facilities and the needed logistics to be able to  effectively discharge their administrative and legal duties. Mr Azasoo said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Cape  Coast at a training workshop for Assembly Members.

He indicated that, many districts do not have administrative offices,  accommodation as well as basic social infrastructures such as  hospitals, schools, telecommunication services, roads, water and  security to attract and retain professionals posted to area.

"I can confidently tell you that many of the districts were better off  not created. They rely on the meagre District Assemblies Common Fund  (DACF) for virtually everything. They have become an albatross around  the neck of government."

He noted that any district that had become overly reliant on only  external sources of funding, particularly Common Fund was at a high  risk of non-performance. However, he encouraged such assemblies to step up their revenue  mobilisation efforts to increase their Internally Generated Revenue by  adopting more pragmatic and innovative strategies to rake in revenue  to support development projects.

The Local Governance expert counselled the assemblies to see funds  coming from external sources such as the DACF, the District  Development Fund (DDF) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) as  funds to complement their IGF and not to replace it.

He also urged the government to keenly consider the economic viability  or otherwise of a geographical location before creating new districts.