The President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has dismissed suggestions that electing District Chief Executives will deepen disunity at the grassroots.
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Arguments against electing DCEs is an insult to democracy – Franklin Cudjoe
He argues that representative democracy demands that people are elected to man the affairs of the populace.
Franklin Cudjoe, President of IMANI Ghana
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A former local government and rural development minister, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, whilespeaking at the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) forum on assessing the effectiveness of the district assembly concept remarked that electing the MMDCEs will be detrimental to the development of the country.
“Since those DCEs would like to unseat the government for their party to come to power, it will be difficult for any partisan government to implement its programs through hostile DCEs,” the local government expert said.
This, according to Mr Cudjoe is “backward” and “undemocratic”. He argues that representative democracy demands that people are elected to man the affairs of the populace.
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“I heard in the course of the week that some bastions of decentralization or apparently demi-gods of decentralisation are suggesting that if we allow elections to happen at the district assembly level there will be accentuated tribalism. There will be chaos and I feel this is so backward. It is so not democratic. In fact it is an insult to democracy. We are having even unit elections but we do not want to elect the head of the district who will be working with the elected ones,” he said on Citi FM’s .
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