5TH KASSENA-NANKANA WEST DISTRICT ASEEMBLY INAUGURATE BUT NO PM 12th FEB., 2024

The new and reconstituted Kassena-Nankana West Assembly was successfully inaugurated on Monday 12th February, 2024 but failed to elect a Presiding Member [PM] the same day even after two attempts. This same fate faced the Fourth Assembly; the term of the immediate-past Assembly Members until they eventually got one elected in the dying days of the previous Assembly. 

The Hon. DCE Addressing The House
Hon. Gerard Ataogye, the District Chief Executive [DCE] had prior to the PM nominations and elections made a passionate appeal to the House to eschew divisive tendencies as well as entrenched political stance and to rather be minded by the needs of their various communities and people, they each represent in the House. “Therefore, the various communities must hold us all responsible and you must thus live up to the task ahead to the expectation of the people who voted you into office and to also appreciate the fact that, they are truly participating in decision making process and governance of the nation”, the DCE emphasized.

The Assembly comprises a total of 68 which includes the DCE, the Member of Parliament, 20 Government Appointees and 46 elected members. This is the 5th Assembly since the creation of this district in 2008.

Meanwhile earlier in his welcome address at the inauguration ceremony prior to the attempt to elect the PM, Hon. Ataogye expressed joy that a good number of the past Assembly Members have rejoined the 5th assembly and noted their rich experience would benefit the House a great deal.

The Assembly Members Taking Their Oaths
 

Mr. Ataogye observed that over time, the Kassena Nankana West District Assembly has been unable to tap the full capacity of its revenue potentials in terms of internal revenue generation, thus depending heavily on Central Government to finance its budget. He thus charged the newly inaugurated Assembly Members; “As newly elected assembly members, you must come out with more realistic, innovative and creative strategies in collaboration with Management of the Assembly to generate adequate revenues to compliment the efforts of central government to undertake development projects in this part of the country”.

In the inaugural speech read for the President by the Upper East Regional Representative on the Council of State and Paramount for the Talensi Traditional Area, Tongraan Kubilsong Nanlebegtang, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told the new members of the House; “as Assembly Members, you have the mandate to deliberate, plan, mobilize resources, make decisions including by-laws to ensure the transformation of your District towards the Ghana we all want”.

President's Rep., H.E The Tongraan Reading Speech
 

The President noted that, the inauguration coming off marked another important milestone towards deepening Ghana’s decentralisation as stipulated in Article 35 Clause 6(d) of the 1992

Constitution. He explained that, this Article indeed enjoins the state to promote decentralisation and popular participation in governance by affording all possible opportunities to the citizenry to participate in decision making at all levels of government.

According to him, the decentralisation reforms that started in 1988 with only

110 District Assemblies have since made progress in several fronts. “Today, as we inaugurate 259 District Assemblies out of a total of 261; with the exclusion of Nkoranza South Municipal and Nkoranza North District Assemblies whose tenure is yet to end; we can all agree that government is closer to the people than it had ever been in the history of this country”, he noted. He expressed the hope that the newly constituted membership of the District Assembly, is competent enough to envisage new ideas and opportunities that would emerge from the House’s deliberations to deepen and strengthen, the legislative and executive functions of the District Assembly for the general good of the people.

It is however interesting to note that aside the Kassena-Nankana West District failing to elect a Presiding Member on the inauguration day, some other eight sister districts across the Upper East Region could not also fulfill the simple task of getting a PM elected; they are the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, the Kassena-Nankana Municipal Assembly, the Talensi District and the Binduri District. The rest include Builsa South, Bongo, Tempane and Garu Districts. The Bawku West District was lucky to have successfully elected one though.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MoFA RECEIVES APPROVAL TO SPEND & RECRUIT IN FIGHT AGAINST HPAI 25th OCTOBER, 2021

Image
  Ghana’s Cabinet has given approval for the release of 43,984,017.70 Ghana Cedis to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in its efforts geared at combating the current outbreaks of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza [HPAI] in the country. The Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, who announced this at a press briefing held this Monday at the ministry, added that the approval came on the back of a proposal his ministry submitted to Cabinet on the subject matter. He said the approval also empowered the ministry to recruit 1,100 veterinary professionals to augment the staff numbers of the Veterinary Services Directorate [VSD] across the country so as to ensure the effective containment of the influenza. Dr. Akoto, Agric Minister making his presention   According to Dr. Akoto, Cabinet additionally directed that 50 percent of the 1,100 professionals representing 550 of them, should be recruited immediately whilst the remaining 50 percent is to be recruited over a
Read more

MoGCSP & ISD TRAIN ISD OFFICERS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ON SWCES 15th FEBRUARY, 2024

Image
A day’s training workshop for the roll out of a pending nation-wide public education and sensitization campaign on the Single Window Citizens Engagement Service [SWCES], has taken place in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, this Thursday, February 15, 2024. The training workshop was organized by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection [MoGCSP] in collaboration with the Information Services Department [ISD]. Group Picture; Participants & Trainers   Some eight Regional Information Officers and their respective metropolitan, municipal as well as district information officers, were the main participants in the training as these officers are the professionals clothed with the requisite skills and ground experience to execute the public education and sensitization campaign on the SWCES in the coming weeks. The said ISD officers were drawn from the Upper East, the Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions. The rest came from the Northern Region, Upper West, Savannah and North E
Read more

OVER 10 PROJECT SITES HANDED OVER TO CONTRACTORS IN KWD UNDER SOCO 19th NOV., 2023

Image
A number of sites earmarked for the construction of several projects ranging from market stalls, CHPS compounds, Culverts, mechanized boreholes to a butcher shop and more, have been handed over to contractors for execution across several communities in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region. Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Gerard Ataogye who led a team including his District Coordinating Director, Mr. Abubakari Amadu and other technical officers to hand over these sites to contractors, disclosed that all these projects fall under the SOCO Sub-Projects. The SOCO Project is a 150 million US-Dollar World Bank loan facility procured by the Government of Ghana, for the implementation of the Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesion Project [SOCO] and Kassena-Nankana West is one of the 48 beneficiary metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in the six project regions. Hon. Ataogye Speaking To Nabango Community Leaders The regions a
Read more