A policy think tank, Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP), has advocated for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) across the country.<\/p>\n
The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), earlier in its recommendations, proposed that Metropolitan Chief Executives should be popularly contested.<\/p>\n
However, according to the Interim Chairman of GGDP, Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye, all three local governance structures should elect their leaders by popular elections.<\/p>\n
This he says will prevent what he calls the \u201chypocritical nature of the non-partisan status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are of the opinion that all three levels should be popularly elected not as the constitutional review commission recommended that only metropolitan chiefs should be elected. We want metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives all three popularly elected… The current system is supposed to be non partisan, it is not true, it is partisan, it is not working well. So many times in many areas you have contested elections because the president’s nominee is not accepted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the official launch of the group\u2019s public debate on how the constitutional review process should be completed in Accra, Mr. Adjaye said, \u201cwe have taken stock of the reality and we are saying if decentralization is fully implemented, if they are being popularly elected, then naturally it will become partisan as is electing the president or electing members of parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n
The election of a new presiding member for the Kumasi Municipal Assembly (KMA), fraught with mild clashes, hit a dead end after the ninth time.<\/p>\n
Mr. Adjaye believes electing MMDCEs by popular voting will prevent such situations\u00a0from occurring.<\/p>\n
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By: Caleb Kudah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A policy think tank, Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP), has advocated for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) across the country. The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), earlier in its recommendations, proposed that Metropolitan Chief Executives should be popularly contested. However, according to the Interim Chairman of GGDP, Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":257999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[3,551,12622,194,1298],"yoast_head":"\n