Excellent Foundation Club engages MP in Forum

Excellent Generation Club, a civil society group in Dodowa, has organized a Constituency Governance Forum at Shai-Osu Doku.

The forum dubbed: “Parliamentary Awareness Project” (PAP) is targeted at supporting the creation of sustainable communication platforms which are to link Members of Parliament (MP’s) to their constituencies and the public as a means to galvanize and deepen democratic participation particularly on the legislative level.

The event which is on the theme: "The People meet Parliament and the Local Government is the first in the Greater Accra Region organized by the Excellent Generation Club."

It is organized with partnership support from Three Heads and a Pen Productions (3HP), SpeakAfrica Foundation, Citizens’ Network for Democracy and Economic Development (CINDED), www.wethepeoplegh.com, and STAR –Ghana.

Mr Adjakwa Gyimah, President of the Club, said the forum sought to establish a constituency-based platform for regular dialogue for the citizenry and their MPs and other governance stakeholders.

He said it created awareness on the need for the public to be involved in strengthening democracy particularly at the legislative level.

Mr Gyimah said the programme would educate the people about the duties and responsibilities of the governance stakeholders such as MPs, DCEs and mssembly members as well as provide them with the opportunity to channel their concerns directly to these stakeholders.

Mr David Tetteh Assumeng, MP for Shai-Osu Doku, said the programme was to bring governance to the grassroots and thanked the organizers for giving him the platform.

He told his constituents projects he uses his share of the MP’s common fund to undertake in the community.

Mr Assumeng said in the 2013-2014 academic year, his share of the common fund was used to sponsor 65 tertiary students and each student received GH?400.

He said the Market Queen of Dodowa on behalf of the market women also requested a public address system to use in the market which is also factored into the common fund.