Nine persons nominated by the President as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Central Region have all been approved by their various assemblies.
They are Messrs Anthony Egyir Aikins, Cape Coast; Yankey Ackah, Denkyira West; Kofi Ashia, Denkyira East; Joseph Foster Andoh, Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira; Nuhu Kofi Adams, Ewutu-Senya and Theophilus Aidoo Mensah, Gomoa West.
The rest are Ms Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa; Alex Antwi Bosiako, Assin North and Ms Sabina Appiah-Kusi, Assin South.
The assemblies in the Gomoa East and the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam, however, failed to approve the nomination of Messrs Theophilus Ampah and Light Koomson respectively.
Mr Ampah’s nomination received an outright disapproval when he failed to secure the number of votes even after a second ballot. Mr Koomson, however, has the option of being presented for a second ballot within 10 days.
Speaking at separate meetings, to confirm the nominees Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe tasked the assembly members and the people to demand accountability from their representatives.
She said the MMDCEs would be judged by the level of development that they would initiate in their areas and, therefore, asked them to respect the views of the people they served.
She asked them to do away with nepotism, ethnicity, corruption and other anti-social vices whilst making sanitation, environmental issues, HIV/AIDS, and the overall development of their areas their top priorities.
Speaking to the press later, Mr Andoh appealed to the assembly members to work hard to uplift the image of their districts.
In a related development, Mr Henry Kwaku Hayfron, 41 a tutor at OLA Training College, Cape Coast was confirmed as the Municipal Chief Executive of the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly.
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