President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated metropolitan chief executives (MCEs) for the country’s four major cities – Accra, Kumasi, Tamale and Sekondi-Takoradi.
Mohammed Adjei Sowah has been nominated as the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) while Osei Assibey Antwi has been nominated for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
The President has also nominated Iddrisu Musah for the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) while Anthony K. K. Sam will head Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), pending approval.
These nominations were contained in a release from the presidency.
Earlier, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Mahama disclosed that government had put in place measures to minimise the agitations that normally accompanied such appointments.
She explained that one of the measures was to open invitation for applications at the district level which preceded the screening and vetting.
On the possible agitations, the minister said: “It is a human situation and there are contestations. It is not all the time there is a compromise and people understand each other so definitely, some people may not be happy but with time we will all realise that this is an appointed position and only one person can be appointed.”
“The Akufo-Addo administration’s long-term plan for MMDCEs and local government is to have them elected and President Nana Akufo-Addo, during his campaign for office, promised Ghanaians they would be electing their MMDCEs in 2018.
“We are hoping that at the next run of district assembly elections, we would have gone through the legal amendment processes for MMDCEs to be elected.
It will happen under President Nana Akufo-Addo. For now, definitely, we can’t leave the district assemblies vacant so we are working on appointing until such time where district assembly elections will come on.”
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