Madam Elizabeth Agyemang addressing members of the Association of Presiding Members in Kumasi
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has charged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCES) to consciously work together with their respective Presiding Members (PMS) to ensure they chart development paths for their communities.
Addressing the annual meeting of the Association of Presiding Members in Kumasi, the Minister whose address was read by his deputy, Elizabeth Agyemang called for more collaboration between the district heads and their PMs.
According to him, assemblies are better administered when there is effective collaboration between the chief executive, presiding members, heads of departments and assembly members.
He urged MMDCEs not to feel too big to share ideas with their PMs and vice versa, adding that no autocratic administration brings out the best in people.
‘’There is no point showing you have or wield power while better things could be accomplished by collaborating with yourselves at the assemblies’’, the Regional Minister stressed.
DEVELOPMENT:
The regional minister noted that development thrives where there is peace and harmony.
This, he noted is the more reason people should learn to live at peace with each other, adding it is best that MMDCEs learn to collaborate with their PMs to draw up development plans for their localities.
Development at these localities could best be championed for when both leaders of the assembly as well as the assembly members collectively push to lobby for projects.
The NPP government, the Minister stressed wants harmony to prevail in the MMDAs in Ashanti so as to enable the assemblies themselves draw up their own development plans.
‘’Development can only thrive in an atmosphere of peace where both actors and players will be acting with mutual trust’’, the Minister posited.
DEAN:
Addressing the meeting earlier, the Dean of the Ashanti Regional Association of Presiding Members, Mr Emmanuel Dadzie commended his colleagues for collaborating with their various MMDCEs.
He asked that the mutual trust and cordiality that exist between them and their MMDCEs continue so they could work together to chart a path of development of their respective localities.
Hon Dadzie stressed the importance of operating transparent administration as PMs and asked that they make their meetings as deliberative as possible to allow members to share ideas for development.
‘’We are charged to partner MMDCEs to draw up development agendas for our localities and not to seek to hijack assembly meetings’’, Hon Dadzie admonished.
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