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Activities at Kunbumgu district assembly is dwelling in total stasis due to insufficient vehicles and offices for various departments of the assembly for operations. The district coordinating director, Mr. Mohammed Issahaku said the entire assembly operates with only the vehicle of the District Chief Executive (DCE) and five office for all staffs in the assembly forcing some department heads to operate from the comfort of their homes. A visit to the facility saw six department heads occupying an office. The six include the coordinating director, the district health director and some other senior staff. "Our biggest challenge is vehicles for operations and infrastructure for staffs. There is only one vehicle and five offices for the entire assembly. That is affecting our activities". He revealed that in extreme cases, the assembly was forced to actually hired vehicles from the district based NGO; Business Advisory Center (BAC) Speaking to Peacefmonline.com, the director recounted that, they were not able extend development to other parts of the district and that some part of the district have been developmentally disconnected due to this transportation challenge. The Kunbumgu district assembly was curved out from the Tolon-kunbumgu district with Tolon as the district capital circa June 2012. The district has since faced with avalanche of administrative challenges. The assembly is also in acute financial challenge, fast moving to threshold of bankruptcy. The reason for this challenge according to the DCE, in a phone interview, is because the assembly inherited liabilities far outweighed the assets. "You know, we inherited assets and liabilities and the liabilities are more than the assets". The assembly cannot operate without government subvention in Common Fund and interventions by NGOs due to insufficiency of its Internal Generated Fund.