MMDCEs ELECTION FIXED FOR JUNE 2021

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The election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives, MMDCEs, has been fixed tentatively for June 2021.

 This will become possible only when the benchmark set out in the 1992 Constitution is achieved during a national Referendum scheduled for September next year alongside the District Level Elections. 

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, made this known in Kumasi. 

Hajia Alima Mahama was speaking at the Ashanti region’s edition of the nation-wide consultative workshops to solicit input of as many Ghanaians as possible in drafting policy guidelines as part of the road map towards the eventual election of the MMDCEs. 

At the workshop were serving MMDCEs, Coordinating Directors, Presiding and Members of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, traditional leaders, representatives of faith-based organizations, persons with disability, some political parties and media practitioners. 

They were taken through power point presentations by experts on local governance and decentralization in Ghana, Conceptual framework and Functions of MMDCEs as well as the Rationale, Processes and Expected roles of stakeholders in the Election of MMDCEs along partisan lines.

 The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, explained that the election of MMDCEs will give security of tenure to those political office holders. 

The Minister disclosed that her office has received many petitions from people across the country asking the President to remove some MMDCEs from office for certain allegations. 

Hajia Alima said government is working with all key stakeholders including the Electoral Commission, National Commission for Civic Education and the Attorney General’s Department to organize a Referendum in September 2019 during the District Level Elections the outcome of which will determine whether or not the election of MMDCEs should be held in 2021. 

A Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Osei Bonsu Amoah, who took the participants through the roadmap towards the election noted that the process involves three phases which are the pre-election, election and post-election of MMDCEs. 

Each phase entails various activities and programmes and appealed for the support and cooperation of all Ghanaians. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, noted that election of MMDCEs would actualize true decentralization of local governance in the country.


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