President John Dramani Mahama has charged metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to join in the transformational plans of government for the people of Ghana.
President Mahama said a number of national projects will be decentralized to the local levels for a more efficient supervision, putting the MMDCEs in the frontline as implementers, he said.
President Mahama made these remarks on Wednesday, May 7 when he opened the 2nd Conference of MMDCEs at the Ghana Institute for Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
“Your gathering here this week provides an opportunity to renew your resolve and vision to help bring prosperity to all our people,” President Mahama told the various MMDCEs.
He said job creation has been prioritised as a local effort, thereby shifting government’s Local Economic Development (LED) to local authorities.
“Through the LED, district assemblies will deploy local resources and local entrepreneurship to create jobs within our districts for our people to earn decent incomes,” President Mahama pointed out.
He said the LED will be used as one of the benchmarks to assess all MMDCEs.
“The transformational agenda in front of us is not an agenda for the president alone. It is an agenda for the whole country.”
President Mahama called on them to “be resolute, creative and forward-looking especially at the local level to ensure the success of this transformation.”
Present at the opening session were Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Akwasi Oppong Fosu, Chief of Staff Prosper Bani and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Paul Victor Obeng.
