Recent Afrobarometer by one of Ghana’s long-standing governance research and advocacy group, the Centre for Democratic Development, CDD, suggests none of the two major parties can record straight win in the 2020 elections. The election has been predicted to go into a re-run. This is indeed good news for the opposition whilst it means an early warning sign for incumbency to get to work on its popularity which according to the polls have plummeted by 15 percent. Competitive!
Access to information has been identified as a major issue at the municipal, metropolitan and district levels. Those who are readily available moving from house to house to benefit from domestic ventures and sometimes to merely interact with families, tend to have less to offer because many of them have little capacity and education to carry on the message to the people and the developmental agenda by the central government. Those in fashionable shirts and ties and suits, on the other hand, are simply cut off from the realities of their constituents. On information access, it is estimated that six in every 10 Ghanaians unlikely or somehow unlikely to get information on the plans ( education, health, agric, etc) and budgets of their MMDAs.
But if we can achieve an effective governance structure at the national level, it begins at the MMDCE levels. It has been established by surveys that Ghanaians trust the president, the courts of law, Parliament, religious and traditional leaders more than they do their MMDCEs. This doctrine of development can only mean a top-down approach which defeats the whole purpose of a decentralized government - the power to the average citizen. Many, myself inclusive, have had little interactions or called on our assemblymen or district officers. We can only be citizens and not spectators if we begin the accountability and call for responsive grassroots political leadership. May be from here, I shall contact my newly-elected assemblyman or woman and state councillors and work together for the progress of our communityLatest Stories
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