Ministry for Local Government and Rural Development and the NCCE have launched in Accra a Citizens Education and Awareness Campaign on the upcoming District Level Elections and Referendum.
The campaign, launched on Wednesday, is to galvanise the people to fully participate in the two major national events.
It was launched in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Information Services Department (ISD).
The referendum scheduled for December 17, this year is to amend Article 55 (3) of the 1992 constitution to introduce a multi-party system of elections at the local level.
Hajia Alima Mahama, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, who launched the Campaign, said electing the MMDCEs was important as only a few people could present their grievances directly to the presidency unlike in the case of MMDCEs, as they developed factional relations with the people in their jurisdictions.
Ms Josephine Nkrumah, the Chairperson of the NCCE, said the NCCE conducted a research in 2014 on the “Effectiveness of District Assemblies” that revealed that 69.4 per cent of respondents preferred that MMDCEs were elected, hence the initiative.
“We count on all registered Ghanaian voters and especially urged first time voters who registered during the limited voters’ registration exercise, that in a spirit of self-management, active citizenship and good governance to turn out massively to participate in the district level elections and referendum on December 17, 2019,” she said.
