NCCE enhances community concept of local governance

The Ga West  Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Robert Anas Okoe, has appealed to the people of the municipality to perform their civic responsibility in peace and harmony.

He said once governance had been brought to the doorstep of the people, there was the need for the citizens to participate actively in the business of the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to set their priorities right.

Mr Okoe, who was addressing assembly members  of Asofa, near Amasaman, on the community concept of local governance, explained that “as your representatives in the Assembly it is for you to support and motivate them onto greater action to be able to serve you to the best of their ability,” he said, describing the concept ‘’as the beauty of our democracy’’.

He reminded them that 2016 was an election year and advised the people to exercise their franchise peacefully devoid of any traces of violence and untoward behaviours.

The Ga West municipal director of NCCE said it was for the people to decide  what was good for them in their areas within the framework of the decentralisation policy  and  embraced the policy  to enhance development at all levels.

He said in every four years, members of the assemblies were elected on a non-partisan basis and urged the representatives to co-operate fully in the assemblies during deliberations to achieve maximum results, and added that ‘’the chiefs have a greater role to play by offering lands for projects such as hospitals, schools and markets.”

He said as its core mandate, the NCCE would continue to educate the citizenry on their rights and responsibilities in the society to be able to work assiduously towards the realisation of their goals, adding: “If you are united in your endeavours, there is no way you cannot do things to benefit yourselves.”

The Presiding Member of the Ga West Municipal Assembly, Nii Quartey Boye II, Otankor Mantse, who deputised for the Ga West Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Sam Attuquaye Quaye, and chairman for the occasion, advised the people’s representatives to co-operate with one another in the assembly to keep the wheel of governance running uninterrupted in order to strengthen the pillars of democracy.

He assured the audience that whatever came out of the question-and-answer session would be communicated to the assembly for action to be taken.

The programme was sponsored by the European Union (EU).

Present at the function were Naa Densua, the Asafoanye of Asofa and her elders.