Friday, 8 April 2011

Call to Speed up Appointment of a New MCE for Bolgatanga

08-04-2011
The government has been charged to as a matter of urgency speed up the process of appointing a new substantive Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly to facilitate the daily development activities and programmes of the municipality. This appeal was made by the Interim President of the Upper East Youth Association, Jonathan Adabre Atia, at a press briefing held in Bolgatanga. The concern of the youth group follows the termination of appointment of the former Municipal Chief Executive, Epsona Ayamga, thus, creating a vacuum within the local government system of the assembly. This unfortunate development, they claim, has to a greater extent, brought a number of developmental projects to a standstill, considering the provision of the Local Government Act, 1993, Act 462 of the 1992 constitution, stipulating the core function of District Chief Executives. The said provisions enshrined in the constitution mandates the district chief executive to be responsible for the day-to-day performance of the executive and administrative functions of the District assembly. This draws to the conclusion that without a Chief Executive representing the central government in the municipality with additional functions presiding on meetings of Executive committee, no meaningful development can be carried out. According to the youth group, it is the poor and the vulnerable that bear the consequences of such instances due to their over reliance on government’s interventions and policies to survive. Giving the challenging sanitation problems bedeviling the Bolgatanga municipality, the group appealed to the President to consider appointing a person with an unbeatable track record in environmental cleanliness to help deal with the sanitation problems facing the area. This they claim would make the municipality reclaim its past glory with regards to environmental cleanliness. The group later expressed their support for any person appointed as new MCE for Bolgatanga in the fight against filth in the municipality and its environs. The group therefore reiterated the need for government to appoint a new substantive MCE for Bolgatanga, stressing that government should consider appointing a person capable of attending to the plight of the citizenry particularly, the youth.
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