By Evans Worlanyo Ameamu
Keta (VR), April 3, GNA – Residents in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region are calling on Assembly members to demonstrate force by approving Mr Wisdom Seade, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) nominee for the area.
According to them, Mr Seade has the experience, integrity, and ability to maneuver and reset the fortune of the municipality for better improvements and progress.
Mr Dzilanyo Adadey, a resident of Abutsiakope, a suburb of Keta, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, emphasised the need for Assembly members to emulate the gesture of other municipal and district assemblies and successfully approve the nominee for better development.
“It has been challenging to get an MCE approved in the past, one example is what we experience during the approval of former MCE, Mr Emmanuel Gemegah.We are plead with assembly members to emulate examples of other assemblies that have already approved their MMDCE nominees,” he said.
He described Mr Seade as a philanthropist with good relationships with businesses, corporate organisations, among others and believed that his approval would mean better resetting, development, and improvement for the successful progress for Keta municipality.
He said that Mr Seade, who is also the Keta National Democratic Congress Chairman, has exhibited a high level of integrity, better personal relationships, and hard work, making him qualified to be the next MCE for Keta.
“We picked an information that some assembly members are reportedly planning to repeat the prolonged voting process that occurred during the Presiding Member (PM) election, but l think they will do the needful because having both Presiding Member
and MCE as assembly members would foster better understanding, unity, progress, and development.”
Madam Saviour Adranyi another resident in Keta, lamented about how the assembly members rejected Mr Seade after he contested for Presiding Member (PM) position last year and called for better reforms and endorsement of President Mahama’s nominee.
The confirmation process is scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 10, between 1400 to 1600 hours with thirty-two assembly members, comprising 22 elected and 10 government appointees, are expected to participate while Mr Seade is expected to secure two-thirds of the votes to get the nod as the next MCE.
Meanwhile, Mr Seade, who is also Assembly Member of Anyako Electoral Area, in an earlier interview with the GNA, pledged to prioritise unity, idea-sharing, and collaboration with chiefs, stakeholders, businesses, and others to develop areas such as health, sports, infrastructure, agriculture, education, and more.
He also promised to outline important emergency priority areas to tackle within his first 100 days in office which would be the visions to reset the fortune of the municipality and bring about better improvements and progress.
Other nominees in the region which include Mr Bless Kodjo Katamani, of Akatsi North District, Mr Alfred Klu Odikoro of Agortime-Ziope District and Mr Jerry Yaw Ameko of Adaklu District were approved by their respectively assembly members on day one of the MMDCEs schedules that commenced on Wednesday, April 2 and is expected to end on Friday, April 11.
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