Tag Archives: MMDCEs

A confidential report currently being reviewed by the Presidency and sighted by Asaase News suggests that at least ten (10) Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) are to be queried and risk being fired from their various positions as a result of multiple issues raised against them in the …

The Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation, and Rural Development has directed the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS) to facilitate meetings with relevant stakeholders to foster consensus on the election of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies Chief Executives (MMDCEs). Mr. Daniel Kwaku Botwe acknowledged that the legal reforms required to …

The President of Ghana, H.E  Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his appeal to the Chiefs, Metropolitan, Municipal and Chief Executives (MMDCE’s) in the country to rise up and take up lead roles in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey). According to the President, the Chiefs, who are custodians of lands …

The President  of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Nana Akufo-Addo has had course to issue a string warning to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDCEs) spread across the country to ensure strict compliance to building regulation. Speaking at the commissioning of new equipment by local dredging company, Dredge Masters, a …

A former Mayor of Kumasi, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, is in support of proposals for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the country. Currently, the President nominates all MMDCEs for confirmation by their assemblies. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently reiterated his commitment to ensuring that …

The Minister for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe, says government will not hesitate to punish any local government official whose action or inaction brings the name of the government into disrepute. The sector Minister indicated that government will ensure that District or Metropolitan Chief Executives live …

President Akufo-Addo has sent a clear and unambiguous warning to all Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in his government. He says he would not take any lame excuses for non-performance and failures on the part of any of his appointees. Speaking at an orientation put together for MMDCEs …

President Akufo-Addo has charged newly appointed CEOs for the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to build and manage their own capacities to realise the fruits of decentralisation as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.   According to him, this would finally end the overreliance of citizens on action and support …

The Minority in Parliament has demanded a re-run of the confirmation processes of some Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCE) nominees. Addressing the media on Tuesday, Ranking Member on the Local Government Committee of Parliament, Nii Lante Vanderpuye stated that the use of force on Assembly Members, prevention of …

  Youth activist and a National Secretary for United Patriots of NPP, Kwabena Frimpong has urged newly sworn in Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives to partner their party executives and members of Parliament to chart a development for their respective communities/districts.   He noted that such collaboration would help …