Professor Ephraim Avea Nsoh, a former Upper West and Upper East Regional Minister is encouraging political party leaders to appoint people who are competent and have the ability to lead to head the various government Ministries, Agencies, Departments and MMDAs.
He said when this is done, the organisations that these people head would grow and invariably aid in the development of the entire country.
Professor Avea Nsoh expressed worry that currently, the appointments to Ministries, Agencies, Departments and MMDAs have become a system to reward individuals who have worked for the party, financed the activities of the party of may be related to leadership of the party and not necessarily because the people who are appointed have the capacity to act and execute the functions fo their positions well.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East, the Former Upper East Regional Minister said the country risks stagnation if the right people are not put in the right positions.
He said the situation is evident at some MMDAs where MMDCEs only exist in their various offices. They lack the competencies to develop innovative revenue-generating schemes or even the skills to lobby and bring development partners on board to aid in fostering the development of the areas they head.
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“You keep a person somewhere and how to even mobilise the base, the person does not have the skills to do so. So you will realize that the technocrats there would just manipulate him or her”.
“In terms of resource mobilization, the person is almost nothing. If you talk about property rates, what does that mean to the person? He does not know,” he said.
At the local governance level, Professor Avea Nsoh said “once they [MMDCEs] are the political leaders there, so to our political leaders, they can appoint who ever they want, but they should appoint people who have the werewithdal to be able to manage that place”.
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