Educate public on APRM – NCCE told

The out-going Central Regional Minister, Mr Ebenezer Kwodwo Addo, has appealed to the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the National Commissioner for Civic Education (NCCE) to organize programmes to educate the public on the operation of the APRM.

The Regional Minister said this at a forum to mark the 10th Anniversary of the APRM at Apam.

He called on Ghanaians to sustain Ghana’s democratic dispensation and thanked the Gomoa West District Oversight Committee (DOC) for its interest and other activities towards the enhancement of the Mechanism.

He said Ghana is the first African country to be peer-reviewed and first in several events that had taken place in Africa, adding that Ghana is now secured, happy and leading in the struggle for peace and freedom in the whole of Africa.

Mr Ashrab Rasheed of the National APRM office, mentioned good governance as the key to development and described Ghana as the “oasis of peace in West Africa and commended the people of Ghana and the government for the recent peaceful general election.

The Gomoa West District Chief Executive, Mr Theophilus Aidoo Mensah, said the District Assembly had lived up to expectation as far as the APRM is concerned and mentioned some of the challenges facing the APRM in the district as lack of funds to promote its activities.

The chairman for the function, Nana Effrim X, chief of Apam, called on Africans to unite to develop the continent because Africans cannot continue to live in poverty.

Source: GNA