Don’t allow CSOs to usurp your powers – Mosquito to NCCE

The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has charged the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to ensure that civil society organizations do not take over their roles.

“The NCCE should not create space to allow civil society organisations to usurp its function,” the NDC General Secretary said.

Mr Asiedu Nketia made the call when he and other NDC executives met with leadership of the NCCE over a series of engagements for all registered political parties and stakeholders ahead of the commission's programmes scheduled for the November polls.

Confusion between NCCE and IEA over debates
The NCCE has announced it will organize debates for parliamentary candidates in all 275 constituencies of the country ahead of the polls, as well as a presidential dialogue for aspirants in this year's presidential elections.

Meanwhile, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) which has over the years been organizing such debates heavily criticised the NCCE for its plans and charged them to rather focus on voter education which falls within its mandate.

Rationale for engagement
The Acting Chairman of the NCCE, Mr. Samuel Asare Akuamoah, who led executives of the NCCE to the meeting, explained that the engagement with political parties will enable the commission to solicit in-depth issues affecting the well-being of Ghanaians to factor such information into their activities.

Mr Akuamoah, said the engagement with the political parties was also to share with them the need to rekindle the tenets of the 1992 Constitution in their supporters, with emphasis on the 'acceptance of personal responsibility' and 'personal ownership of Ghana.'

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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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