Professor Lord Mensah, the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS)
Professor Lord Mensah, the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS), says inadequate personnel remain a major challenge confronting the Physical Planning Departments of the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).  
He said that: “Under staffing has been a problem”, saying that the country required about 1,200 Physical Planners for effective national development planning.  
Prof Mensah raised the concern in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the closing session of the third Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Local Government Service Association of Physical Planners (LoGSAPP) in Kumasi.  
The two-day conference was on the theme: “Strengthening spatial planning for disaster risk prevention, reduction, climate change resilience and sustainable infrastructure delivery in Ghana”.  
Prof Mensah said: “Physical planning is a technical area needed most in the...
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