[ 2017-04-26 ]

Akufo-Addo to name MMDCE nominees today
President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to announce
his nominees for the remaining Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCEs)
positions today [Wednesday].

But the months leading up to this announcement has
seen supporters of the governing New Patriotic
Party protest against any speculated choice of a
Chief Executive they claim they cannot work with.

Just yesterday [Tuesday] in Atiwa in the Eastern
Region, a group, calling itself the Concerned
Youth of Atiwa, demonstrated to compel President
Akufo-Addo to appoint a DCE from Atiwa East and
not Atiwa West, to represent the Atiwa District in
the Eastern Region.

Again on Tuesday, NPP supporters in the Bawku West
Constituency in the Upper East Region vandalised
their party office and some departmental offices
in the Zebilla district over the alleged
appointment of a Chief Executive they did not
favour.



Commenting on these developments, a Local
Governance Analyst, George Kyei-Baffour, advised
the President to not bow to any pressure from his
party supporters.

“The party has played its role by submitting a
basket of names to the President and they should
understand that, of the basket of names that has
been submitted to the president, only one person
will be appointed.”

“If the President were to kowtow to pressures
then he may have to postpone the appointment of
some of the people in some of the districts and
that is going to create problems because the
process will have to be reengineered and that is
going to delay the process.”

“Already we are about three months behind
schedule since the old MMDCEs had their
appointments revoked. So we cannot afford to waste
any more time because it will development at the
local level,” Mr. Kyei-Baffour said.

NPP urges restraint

The NPP itself has urged its supporters not to use
violence to oppose President Akufo-Addo’s
choices of MMDCE’s.

The Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Nana
Obiri Boahen said the supporters must respect the
President’s decision, amidst fears that some
groups who are aggressively lobbying for their
preferred choice of MMDCEs may resort to violent
protests if the president appoints a person they
do not support.

Source - citifmonline.com

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