Wednesday, 15th September, 2021b

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Wednesday, 15th September, 2021
Wednesday, 15th September, 2021
Govt dragged to court
...over continuous stay
Story: George Obeng
The Member of Parliament
for South Dayi,
Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor
has dragged
the government to
court over the continuous stay
of Metropolitan, Municipal and
District Chief Executives (MMD-
CEs) in office.
According to him, President
Akufo-Addo has no constitutional
mandate to direct MMDCEs to
remain at post in acting capacity.
The President, in January
2021 after he was sworn in to
Henry Quartey,
Greater Accra
regional minister,
on Thursday,
reiterated that his
"Let's make Accra work' agenda
was not only geared towards
sanitation in the capital, but
also towards health, education,
security, and indiscipline.
He said: "'Let's make Greater
Accra work' agenda focuses on
five significant pillars of security,
sanitation, health, education,
and indiscipline, which is
cross-cutting."
Mr. Quartey who made the
call when addressing the annual
conference of the Greater Accra
Presiding Members in Accra
on the theme: "Making Greater
Accra work, the role of local
assemblies (Let your action
count)" said the agenda was
borne out of indiscipline and
total disregard for orderliness in
the capital.
The programme brought
together all presiding members
in the region, experts in local
governance, and development
partners.
It would also serve as a
training ground for members to
strategize towards the growth
and development of the region.
serve a second presidential term,
directed all MMDCEs to remain
at post until new ones are appointed.
According to the communiqué
signed by the Chief of Staff,
Akosua Frema Opare, announcing
the directive also warned
the MMDCEs against taking any
policy-related decisions.
“You are to take note of the
provision of section 14 (5) of the
Presidential (Transition) Act
(2012) which states that you shall
not take a decision involving a
policy issue,” the notice said.
Dafeamekpor, who filed the
suit as a private citizen of Ghana,
among other things wants a
“declaration that upon a true and
proper interpretation of Article
243(1), the President of the
Republic of Ghana cannot direct,
instructor appoint any person to
either act or hold office as a Metropolitan,
Municipal and District
Chief Executive without the
prior approval of the Members of
the District Assembly to which
the said person would be acting
or holding office as a Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Chief
Executive.”
He also wants the court to
order the acting MMDCEs to immediately
vacate their post.
“An order directed at all
Metropolitan, Municipal and
District Chief Executives continuing
in office pursuant to the
above-mentioned Presidential
directive to vacate office with
immediate effect.”
'Let's make Accra work'
agenda is holistic -Minister
Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey (R)
and other stakeholders in a group photograph
Sanitation and waste management
would also form an
integral part of their conference.
Mr. Quartey called on the
presiding members to influence
their assemblies to carry out
educational programmes with
stakeholders to achieve the
vision of the agenda.
He said the next line of
action would be on maintaining
high standards in the erection
of advertising signs on the major
streets of the region.
The regional minister said
the Regional Coordinating
Council was currently carrying
out training programmes to
bring sanity into good advertising
standards.
He announced that stakeholders
in the private sector had
been supportive of the agenda
and called for more support to
achieve it.
Mr. Joseph Korto, Regional
Dean of presiding members
called on his colleagues to place
a premium on education as it
was the bedrock of education.
He said: "Honourable members
since education is the only
weapon that society can use to
level up, I will want to suggest
that we intensify education in
our various districts to fight the
disease."
He commended Henry Quartey,
the Greater Accra regional
minister for his innovations in
keeping the city clean and appealed
to his colleagues to offer
the minister maximum support
to achieve health and sanitation
goals.
"The regional minister's
operation clean your frontage
and the demolition of unauthorized
structures on waterways,
among many others cannot
yield positive impact without
the support of the assemblies in
the region."
He described the regional
minister as a courageous leader
with a high level of intelligence
who needed their support for
the Greater Accra region to
work.
Mr. Korto, who is also the national
dean of presiding members
appealed to the executive
and legislative arms of government
to take steps to improve
the conditions of service of
members across the country.
Dr. Nana Ato Arthur, Head
of Service at the office of Local
government service called on
the presiding members to be
innovative towards the development
of their assemblies.
He called on the assemblies
to avoid awarding contracts
that could not receive adequate
funding as that could lead to
putting up so many uncompleted
buildings.
Enoch Teye Mensah, Greater
Accra representative of the
Council of State urged assemblies
to move their conversations
towards electing MMDCEs,
a proposal that had lingered on
for some time now.
Story: Freeman
Koryekpor Awlesu
A
40-year-old mason,
Richard Oppong, has
met his untimely
death on the Gomoa
Fetteh Kakraba
Nkwantanan road yesterday
morning after an alleged gang
attacked him.
According to an eyewitness
who lives in the area, “around
2:00 a.m., midnight, he heard
the deceased screaming for help
while he was being beaten but
because it was midnight and was
afraid to step out he couldn’t rescue
him till they saw him naked
and dead this morning”.
The people in the area confirmed
that the deceased lived
in Manfam, a suburb of Gomoa
Fetteh Kakraba
The Awutu Bereku District
Tension in Gomoa
Fetteh Kakraba
Police Officer, Chief Superintendent
Mr Joshua Semenyo, who
was at the scene with his men
also confirmed to journalists
that the man was brutalised by
an unknown gang with several
injuries all over his body
He said no arrest has been
made so far and the cause of the
dead was yet to be identified
“The body will be sent to the
police mortuary for postmortem
pending investigations,” the
police commander added.
On his part, Odikro for Gomoa
Fetteh Kakraba, Nana Essel
Amokoando II, appealed to the
new acting IGP to beef up security
in the area because robbery
cases kept on increasing.
Writer's email: koryekporfreeman@yahoo.com
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