The appeal by the former Director of Passports comes on the heels of the decision of the entire executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Agona West Constituency to accompany the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Kweku Tetteh, to pay a courtesy call on the chiefs and elders of the Agona Nyakrom and Agona Nkum Traditional areas.
Speaking at a public forum, Opanyin Adu said the decentralisation system under which metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies were conceived eschewed partisan tendencies.
He indicated that for MMDCEs to succeed in their assignments, there was the need for them to be sensitive to the sensibilities of others who belonged to other political persuasions.
Opanyin Adu, who described himself as a “naked civil servant” and “primitively Nkrumahist”, said he was very much upset when he found out at the assembly that money earmarked to finance some 25 students at the senior high school level had laid idle for a long time and had to be returned to chest when many qualified students in need had applied for it and been denied.
He, therefore, called on the MCE and his technocrats to place high premium on education, which is on a decline in the municipality.
An elder of the Agona Nyakrom stool, Okatakyie Nyarko Eku, appealed to the MCE to ensure that the Nyakrom Campus of the University of Cape Coast for which land had been made available by the traditional council became a reality.
In a related development, an elder of the Agona Nkum stool, Nana Nyarko Etua III, has urged the MCE to ensure improvement in road infrastructure within the community.
The MCE courted the support of the traditional authorities to ensure the development of the municipality.
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