Be cautious of non-partisan nature of elections - DCE

Agortime-Kpetoe, Aug. 29, GNA - Mr Mawuli Kwame Dabi, Adaklu Anyigbe District Chief Executive (DCE), has reminded the electorate and contestants in the impending district assembly elections to be cautious its non-partisan nature.

He stated that it was an offence for candidates to display party colours on the voting day and urged the people to turnout in their numbers to exercise their franchise.

Mr Dabi was speaking at a durbar of the Chiefs and people of the three traditional areas to mark the first anniversary of the creation of the District.

The DCE congratulated the Chiefs and people of the Adaklu Traditional Area for displaying maturity in joining the District after an eight-month controversy over the location of the capital at the ceremony on the theme, "Peace, Unity and Development".

He said schools, which refused to collect their textbook allocation from the Ghana Education Service (GES) Depot at Kpetoe had now done so while 25 Commissioned Revenue Collectors had been trained by the Assembly for the area.

Mr Dabi stated that development projects in the area included the construction of the Keyime Dam, offices for the Adaklu Area Council, a borehole at Adaklu Wumenu, market at Kpetoe and an Assembly complex and staff bungalows.

Mr Dabi said the School Feeding Programme was being implemented at Afegame with Adaklu-Helekpe to benefit soon and called on parents to take advantage of the Capitation Grant to send their children to school. The DCE assured the people that the Assembly was putting in place measures for the smooth take off of the National Health Insurance Scheme and urged them to register.

Mrs Juliana Azumah Mensah, MP for the area, called on the people to forget the past and to unite for the accelerated socio-economic development of the District.

She advised women to organise themselves into groups to have access to loans from the banks to expand their businesses and asked the people to pay their taxes and levies to support the Assembly.

Togbega Gbogbi Atsa V, Paramount Chief of the Adaklu Traditional Area, who was the Chairman for the occasion noted that no area could live in isolation and assured the District Administration of the unflinching support of his area to harness the resources of the District.