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NCCE Director advises electorate to vote for competent candidates

By
Dennis Peprah, GNA 

Fiapre, (B/R), Nov.
13, GNA – The electorate have been urged to vote for competent people to
represent them in the upcoming District Level Elections (DLEs).

Mrs. Margaret Abrafi
Appiah, the Sunyani West District Director of the National Commission for Civic
Education (NCCE) who gave the advice said District Assemblies required
development-oriented people to represent their constituents.

She said many local
communities were under-developed because their Assembly Members (AMs) were not
able to push for their pressing development needs to be captured in the
development plans of the Assemblies.

Mrs. Appiah was
addressing separate town hall meetings organised by the Sunyani West
District Assembly held at Fiapre and Nsoatre to sensitise the people on the
upcoming DLEs and the Referendum.

The Electoral
Commission would be organizing District Level Elections and Referendum to amend
article 55(3) of the 1992 Constitution and is scheduled to start at 0700 hours
and close at 1700 hours on Tuesday, December 17 this year.

Mrs. Appiah
explained the work of Assembly members were voluntary, hence the need for the
electorate to consider voting for competent people who are nationalistic and
committed to champion their cause.

She advised the
electorate to check track records of the various candidates before giving them
nod to lead the constituents at the Assembly.

Mrs. Appiah
regretted that communal labour spirit among Ghanaians had diminished and was
therefore affecting the development of rural communities.

Mr. Martin Obeng,
the Sunyani West District Chief Executive advised the electorate to vote
“yes” in the referendum.

The referendum is in
fulfillment of the 1992 Constitutional requirement for the electorate to approve
or reject a question, if Article 55(3) should be amended to introduce
multi-partisan system into local level elections.

Mr. Obeng reminded
Ghanaians the referendum was not an election of MMDCEs, and appealed to the
electorate to participate fully to amend Article 55(3) which is an entrenched
clause of the 1992 Constitution.

GNA  

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