Open Letter To His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President Of The Republic Of Ghana

Mr. President, I wish to commend you for the appointments made so far. I must say that, they are in good faith and in the interest of the country. The appointees are well versed in the areas in which you have appointed them. Ghanaians expect much from them and I know they will work to inure to the benefit of the entire country.

Mr. President, the size of your government has been greeted with mixed feelings. Those in the opposition have openly and grossly criticise the size of your government without tangible reasons to juxtapose their views claiming that, the size of government is the biggest in the political history of our country, Ghana.

It is also believed by many that, you have a firm grip of the administration of this noble country, hence the 110 ministers appointed by you to serve in various capacity in your government will work in tandem with each other to deliver on all promises made to the good people of Ghana.

Mr. President, there is one area; I wish to draw you attention to. There is a huge expectation from you to declare the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees for the various MMDAs. This according to many is long overdue.

Your Excellency, in order to run government activities effectively and efficiently at the MMDA level, there is the need to fast track processes to nominate persons who are competent to work on your behalf at the MMDA level to bring to fruition the one district, one factory policy promised Ghanaians.

Mr. President, you said in your State of the Nation’s Address that “the full complement of appointment should be in place by the end of March”. Today is 1st April, 2017 and yet, you are not done with the full complement of the appointment.

Mr. President, again, you stated in your first ever State of the Nation Address, nicknamed SONA on Tuesday 9th March, 2017 that “I am in great hurry. The times in which we live, demand that we, all, be in a hurry to deal with the problems we face”. But Mr. President, delay in the nomination and appointment of the full complement of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives cannot be said that, you are in a hurry to deal with the numerous problems that confront the MMDAs.

Your Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the absence of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives at the various MMDAs is militating against the smooth running of the assemblies. Most activities at the assemblies are in a stand still pending directives from the Chief Executives who are yet to be nominated, voted for by assembly members and appointed accordingly.

Mr. President, the various volunteer groups which played active roles which culminated to our historic land slide victory in the 2016 general elections anticipate that, you nominate the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives for the various MMDAs as early as possible to enable them to be approved subsequently by the assembly members.

The volunteers and Ghanaians a whole are told that, until the full complement of your government is in place, there is no way they will find jobs, hence the delay in the nomination and appointment of the Chief Executives is a worry to volunteers and Ghanaians as a whole.

Finally, Mr. President, I will appeal to your high office to be in a hurry once again to nominate the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives for the various assemblies for effective and efficient work to start at the assembly level to work to actualise the concrete plans outlined in the 2017 budget statement delivered on the floor of parliament.

Thank you.
….signed…..
Teacher Danquah (T.D.)
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