O.B. Amoah blames some CSOs for a failed referendum on MMDCE election
Speaking on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at this year’s Ghana Speaks Lecture organized by the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), the Deputy Minister indicated that the President Akufo-Addo led Government went very far with the election of MMDCEs even with the Constitutional Instrument (CI) however it couldn’t materialize
A Deputy Minister for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Mr.Osei Bonsu Amoah has blamed some Civil Society Organizations for their contribution to the failed referendum on the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in 2019.
“We appreciate that there was so much damage caused by certain civil society organizations about this whole referendum thing. It got to a point, people were very vociferous about the fact that we should not introduce multi-party elections at the local level and that might have shaped the minds of those that are now responding that multi-party is so bad at the top that we should not bring it down,” he said.
Speaking on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at this year’s Ghana Speaks Lecture organized by the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), the Deputy Minister indicated that the President Akufo-Addo led Government went very far with the election of MMDCEs even with the Constitutional Instrument (CI) however it couldn’t materialize.
Furthermore, he revealed that even some persons in his party, the NPP did not appreciate why the party should share its power thus were not in support of the process despite the President’s insistence.
“But the President was very insistent, the President was focused, the President said that this is not the only country practicing it. Across the world and even in Africa, you have such a situation,”’ he added.
The event was on the topic: “Reconstructing Local Governance and Multiparty Democracy in the Fourth Republic: Proposals”.
