‘Create fund for female assembly members’
The Assembly member for Kojo Beedu North-Low Cost Electoral Area in the Effutu Constituency, Madam Elizabeth Awo Sena, has suggested to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to create a fund for electoral areas with female assembly members.
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This, according to her, would encourage more electoral areas to elect women into the district assemblies, in line with government policy for more women to take part in grass-roots decision-making programmes.
Madam Sena, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Winneba at the weekend, said it would also encourage more women to take part in District Assembly elections.
She said the fund, which could be a small portion of the District Common Fund or any amount from the Ministry, should be used to support development projects chosen by particular and electoral area and supervised by the Assembly.
The fund, she said, could be operated by Members of Parliament (MPs).
She said the current situation did not favour and encourage more women to be elected to the district assemblies as their male counterparts.
The assembly member said the situation where the assemblies prepared medium-term plans without factoring in the main needs of the electoral areas should be changed.
Madam Sena, who is seeking re-election, said only two women had filed nominations to contest the upcoming District Assembly elections at Winneba.
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She stated that during her entire four-year period as assembly member, the municipal assembly was able to undertake only two projects, a six-classroom block and a CHPS Compound in her electoral area.
The assembly member said there were some new schools in the area without electricity and water, and, therefore, appealed to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and corporate bodies to come to the aid of those schools.