Ho, April 12, GNA - Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development says President Akufo-Addo deserves commendation for initiating the process that would lead to the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) on partisan basis.
“Let’s be realistic, very few persons would be willing give away the power to appoint and to have direct influence on local governance. The President is giving away his power to appoint more than 200 MMDCEs,” she said.
Hajia Alima Mahama, who interacting with participants at the second Regional sensitization workshop on the first time election of MMDCES in Ghana held in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, said: “The President is giving power back to the people. In fact, he is guided by the fact that real power belongs to people.”
The workshop sought to among others to build consensus on how to deepen local democracy and good governance with the election of MMDCEs on partisan basis.
Similar workshops which would be organised country wide under the Minister’s watch, also sensitized key stakeholders on their required roles in the upcoming referendum to amend the 1992 constitution for the MMDCEs to be elected on partisan basis.
Participants including current and former Assembly and Unit Committee members, Chiefs and traditional authority leaders, Opinion leaders, Faith based organisations, Civil Society groups and Vulnerable groups such Persons With Disability(PWDs), women, economic and youth groups were exposed to the required functions of MMDCEs within Ghana’s decentralization system.
She assured that as the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, she would play her role of delivering on the New Patriotic Party’s(NPP) manifesto promise on behalf of government by guiding the processes and activities leading to the election of MMDCEs on partisan basis in Ghana.
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