DCE position not reserved for losing parliamentary candidates – Contestant
Mr William Josiah Nuertey, one of the four contestants to the Kpone-Katamanso District Chief Executive’s position has stated that the position is not solely for the compensation of losing parliamentary candidates.
Mr Nuertey told the Ghana News Agency that losing a parliamentary election was not a prerequisite for the President to nominate a candidate to the position of a chief executive officer of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.
He however indicated that the position must be given to persons who had a good knowledge of the local government system and could champion the development of the assemblies.
According to him, he stands tall among the four contestants for the position.
He noted that being a two-term government appointee of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and a student of local government and administration, he was in a better position to bring the needed development to Kpone-Katamanso District.
The other three contestants are Mr Solomon Tettey Appiah, a three-term parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the District, Mr Samuel Oko Amankwa, a one-term parliamentary candidate and Mr George Narh, an NPP loyalist.
He said when nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and confirmed by Assembly Members, he would spearhead arbitration for a permanent solution to the boundary dispute between Kpone Katamanso District Assembly (KKDA) and the TMA.
He said ideally, the initial boundary for the Kpone-Katamanso Zonal Council when it was under TMA should have been maintained when it was ceded off in 2012.
Mr Nuertey described as unfair, the current arrangement that enabled the TMA to collect revenue from companies in the disputed area and take 60 per cent while KKDA receive only 40 per cent.
The 53 years old Head of the Nungua Secondary School’ Languages Department expressed dissatisfaction about the low standard of education in the District and called for stakeholders’ collaboration to raise the standards.
He said there were few public schools in the area while Kpone had no public school making parents to rely on mission and private schools.
Mr Nuertey added that there was the need for the introduction of a scholarship scheme by the KKDA to sponsor residents who would be mentors to others in the future.
Source: GNA