Appointing MMDCEs Now Means, Gov’t Has Wasted a Year Development
The Government has wasted one
year of development agenda that will affect their performance and Economic
growth of this Country and the national agenda to decentralize the government
system. Chairperson of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofosu
Ampofo has disclosed.
In an interview with Accra based
Neat FM morning show, the chairperson of the leading opposition party said,
“Nomination is the first step
which will now allow assembly members to vote for the denial or acceptance of
the nominated, this process also takes time which will add up to the already
long awaited period.”
The Metropolitan Municipal and
District Chief Executives(MMDCE) and the Regional Coordinating Council forms
the Coordination, Realignment and Harmonization of Policies from the National
level and since it is almost a year that one major arm is not formed, this
means there has not been any form of development in any region, municipal and
district levels.
“There cannot be any development
in the various assemblies since the acting Municipal Officers have little authorities
in policy formulation and execution and contractors will lose huge monies
because they can only receive payments unless the Common Fund is released” he
added
Adding that, this affects the
agenda to decentralize the government machinery to bring sustainable
development to the District level that will then transform the entire nation.
“Since the role, Local Government
Minister is vital to every government, they are appointed earlier to harness
the development plan of that Government and one important aim is to ensure the MMDCEs
are nominated and elected into office”.
The formal Regional Minister
further said, “I know, not all the nominated will be accepted which means
another election must be held after ten (10) days. That Region will suffer underdevelopment
at the end of the President’s tenure since less development takes place in
election year because of election preparations”.
Mr Ofosu Ampofo lamented that, “The
NPP Government have failed to stabilize the Ghana currency against the
international currencies and Economic Indicator figures do not depict the real
situations and sufferings of many Ghanaians”.
During our “thank you tour” of
the country, we were exposed to the hardship of many Ghanaians and businesses,
which is contrary to the fallacies of single digit inflation and the 3.2%
growth by the international organizations.
“Ghanaians are spending much on
foodstuffs under this government”
“Ghanaians are paying more for
the same quantity of fuel under this government”
“Farmers are complaining of
fertilizers and school pupils are little to eat on school campus”
“High rate of unemployment among
the teeming youth”
“The NPP have been in power for five
years, so it is surprising they are still blaming the past government for
messing up the economy before they took over”
We do not eat paper figures the chairperson of the National Democratic Congress NDC, concluded.
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