‘Focus on development’
Assembly members and Unit Committee members have been advised to focus on development within their areas of jurisdiction rather than fighting over public places of convenience.
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“Most assembly and Unit Committee members, instead of focusing on issues relating to development, rather fight over who has control over public places of convenience and other public facilities.
“These acts are not right by law,”the Officer in charge of the Ablekuma South-West Sub-Metropolitan Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Stephen Yao Heymann, said.
Durbar
He made the call at a durbar in Accra organised by the NCCE, to educate the assembly and Unit Committee members.
As elected representatives of their electoral areas, Mr Heymann said, assembly members served as liaison officers between their electoral areas and the government, hence their duty and obligation was critical.
In their stewardship, he added, “they need to meet with the electorate to deliberate and determine the socio-development needs of their communities.”
The deliberations, he said, would aid their constituents to make inputs that would lead to the formulation of policies in accordance with the interest and demands of the electorate.
He added, ‘’the unit committee must act as co-players with the assembly members in realising their developmental agenda.”
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Mr heymann, therefore, advised the assembly and unit committee members to focus on supplementing in developing the needs of their people.
Public facilities
Public facilities, he explained were held in trust for people by the assembly and were tendered publicly for bidding and whoever met the requirement were contracted by the assembly members to take charge of them.
“It is not right for unit committee and assembly members to be fighting over these facilities that create disaffections among them and retard development,” Mr Heymann said.
For his part,a retired Municipal Director for Ledzokuku/Krowor NCCE, Mr Fred Agbobli said lack of coordination between assembly and unit committee members nationwide, had led to ineffective governance at the local level,
The gap, Mr Agbobli attributed to malfunctioning of town/zonal/urban councils in some of the districts in the country, adding that those structures must be ignited.
The government system he said was based on five-tier: central government, and the devolution of power to the decentralised structures.
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