NCCE educates electorate
The Ga West Municipal Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has organised Focus Group Discussions on the upcoming district-level elections.
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The participating groups were drawn from faith-based organisations (FBOs), women’s, youth and vulnerable groups, traditional authorities, opinion leaders and political party youth activists.
Other participants were incumbent and aspiring assembly members gearing up for the elections scheduled for March 3, 2015.
Addressing the session at the Loyalty Christian Church at the Mayera Zonal Council at Mayera-Okuleman, near Pokuase, the Ga West Municipal Director of the NCCE, Mr Robert D. Anas-Okoe, urged residents to turn out massively to vote for their representatives.
He argued that since the decentralisation policy was to ensure that “development starts from the various communities,” it was imperative for the citizenry to take keen interest in the national exercise.
He also advocated tolerance and non-violence as significant elements for promoting smooth district-level elections.
The municipal director, who doubles as Mayera-Faase Mantse, under the stool name of Nii Kwame Ankrah I, expressed regret about the challenges facing women and persons with disability.
He ,therefore, advised the people to improve their participation in the election process by exercising their right to vote.
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He recalled results of past district elections in the Greater Accra Region, which recorded low voter turnouts and challenged the electorate to turn out in their numbers at the polls, saying, “this time round you must turn out massively to elect your representatives into office to seek your welfare in terms of development.”
He also said, “It is about time for the incumbent and aspiring assemblymen and women to find ways and means to whip up interest in the electorate as well as encourage higher voter turnout in the region,” the director stated.
He also stressed the point that it was necessary for qualified voters in the Mayera Electoral Area and its environs to take the destiny of their communities into their own hands and embark on projects that would benefit them.
Mrs Lucille Hewlett Annan, Greater Accra Regional Director; Mrs Joyce Afutu, Director of Communication and Mrs Joanna Ampomah Nkansah, all of the NCCE, took turns to address the forum after which the adopted consensus was presented to a larger audience at a community durbar of chiefs and people at Mayera-Okuleman community durbar ground later in the day.