Communities advised not to pressurize DCEs
Naa Ansoale Ganah, Paramount chief of the Jirapa Traditional Area has advised communities to refrain from putting undue pressure on District Chief Executives (DCEs) in their quest to have their demands met.
He noted that there was the tendency for people to think that once the DCE hails from their community all their development needs would be immediately addressed at the expense of other equally needy areas.
Naa Ganah who is a former Member of the Council of State and former Inspector General of Police, gave the advice at a durbar organized by the chiefs and people of Duori in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.
The durbar was to thank President John Dramani Maham for appointing Madam Vivian Kunkuo, a native of the community as District Chief Executive (DCE) for Jirapa.
The Jirapa Naa told the people to count themselves lucky to have a woman as DCE because, in his view, women by nature were often more patient and accommodating.
Madam Kunkuo a gender development officer in the district, has already been confirmed by the Assembly and is awaiting her swearing-in and instruments of office to begin work.
Naa Tikang Diedong Dombo, Chief of Duori in his remarks, said the community was moved to organize the durbar because since the creation of the Region in 1983, no native of Duori had ever been appointed to such a high political office by any of the successive regimes until the Mahama-led government came.
He expressed the people’s appreciation and gratitude to the President Mahama and pledged to support the new DCE to achieve her vision for the district.
He mentioned a number of development facilities that were crying for attention in the community and expressed the hope that the District Assembly would spearhead their execution to raise the living standards of the area.
These include the rehabilitation of the Duori-Jirapa road which is currently in a deplorable state, the provision of an additional Junior High School for the adjoining communities to reduce the burden on the existing one and the construction of a new dam for the people as the old one has virtually outlived its usefulness.
He also called for the establishment of either a Teacher Training College or another Senior High School in the district to be located at Duori to cater for the numerous pupils who find it difficult to travel out of the district for further education.
Madam Kunkuo thanked the President for appointing her out of about 25 persons who vied for the position, and pledged not to disappoint the President for his confidence in her.
“I am going to occupy the seat but I need your support to succeed so that I don’t disappoint the President” she told the residents.
Source: GNA