{"id":310197,"date":"2011-03-15T07:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/government-debunks-report\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T07:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:19:27","slug":"government-debunks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/government-debunks-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Debunks Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Government has debunked media reports that its appointment to the District Assemblies has been over-bloated ostensibly to give advantage to Government.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Mr Samuel Ofusu-Ampofo, Minister of Local<br \/>Government and Rural Development, copied to GNA on Monday, reminded<br \/>Ghanaians that Article 242 of the 1992 Constitution has specified the<br \/>membership of the District Assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>It said these include one person from each elected local<br \/>government electoral area within the district elected by universal<br \/>adult suffrage, and Member or Members of Parliament (MPs) from the<br \/>constituencies that fall within the area of authority of the District<br \/>Assembly as members without the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also mentioned \u201cthe District Chief Executive of the<br \/>District and other members not being more than thirty per cent of all<br \/>members of the District Assembly appointed by the President in<br \/>consultation with Chiefs and other interest groups in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said Government appreciated the concern raised and assured<br \/>stakeholders that nothing untoward would be done to derail the Local<br \/>Government system that Ghanaians have painstakingly toiled to develop.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the formula for calculating the 30 per cent<br \/>Government appointees is: \u201c30\/70 X No. Of Assembly Members (Elected<br \/>Persons + MMDCE + MP or MPs as the case may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_299-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Government has debunked media reports that its appointment to the District Assemblies has been over-bloated ostensibly to give advantage to Government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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