AYAWASO EAST Municipal Assembly has inaugurated the re-elected Assembly Members to ccontinue with their good works in the Municipality.
Out of a total number of seventeen (17) Assembly Members who were inaugurated, eleven (11) were elected Assembly Members while 6 were government appointees. 52 out of 55 Unit Committee members were also inaugurated.
Hon. Adjire Blankson, who addressed the ceremony on behalf of President Akufo-Addo, urged the assembly members to put in much effort to bring more development in the Municipality.
President Akufo-Addo implored the Assembly Members to adopt a strategy to improve on resource mobilization, make decisions including by-laws that would continue with the steady transformation in the Municipality.
He indicated that it was incumbent on the state to promote decentralisation and popular participation in governance by creating opportunities to the citizenry to participate in decision making at
all levels of government.
Nana Akufo-Addo said governance has now come closer to the people than it had ever been in the history of Ghana; to this, he charged the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly (AEMA), to come up with new ideas and opportunities that would help to deepen the deliberative, legislative and executive functions of the Municipal Assembly.
Hajia Salma Mohammed Sani-Kuta the MCE of AEMA commended the re-elected Assembly members and wished that there would be better working relationship.
Hajia was glad to observe that there was very good collaboration amongst the Assembly members in the last four years. She noted that all the successful Assembly members were re-elected due to their performance in their respective electoral areas.
In view of this, Hajia Salma Sani-Kuta encouraged them to do more than they did in their last term.
Source:Nationaltymes.com.
