RECONSTITUTED MMDAs INAUGURATION TODAY

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Almost all the reconstituted Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the country are being inaugurated today. 

There are 216 MMDAs across the country. 

However, election of new members for the reconstitution of some of the Assemblies could not take place for various reasons. 

The inaugural ceremonies are to be performed by certain government appointees. 

In the Ashanti region, there are 30 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. 

All of them will be duly inaugurated today within their respective jurisdictions after which the Members will elect their Presiding Members. 

The Assemblies are constituted by elected representatives of the various electoral areas as are in the metropolis, municipality or district, the Member of Parliament in the area, the Presiding Member while the President has been mandated by the Constitution to appoint 30 percent of the total membership. 

The Heads of Government’s decentralized Departments and Agencies are also ex-officio members. 

So far, all the DCEs who have spoken to Ashanti Today have confirmed the readiness of their Assemblies for the inauguration. 

 A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu will inaugurate both the Kwabre and the Afigya Kwabre District Assemblies at Kodie and Mamponteng.  

 Two persons are contesting for the Presiding Membership.

 The Minister for Health, Alex Segbefia will inaugurate the Sekyere Central District at Nsuta,  while a Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is scheduled to outdoor the Bosomtwe District Assembly at Kuntanase.

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