The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), in accord with the Africa Center for Bread-and-butter Transformation (ACET), has affianced citizens on issues apropos political and bread-and-butter transformation in the country

The engagement, beneath the Ghana Bunched programme, was to seek the angle of stakeholders on articular apropos that accept impeded the country’s political and bread-and-butter transformation over the years

The three-day appointment was captivated in Tamale and abounding by clandestine businesses, youth, and assorted stakeholders from the Northern, Savannah, and Upper East Regions. Angle aggregate from the citizens’ assurance will be congenital into a bunched document, to be debated in June this year

Participants were organised into groups to action perspectives on defined contemporary areas, accidental to the development of the bunched document. They aloft abounding apropos about convalescent the country’s political economy, amid which was the charge to actualize an enabling ambiance for clandestine individuals. They additionally alleged for accord appear bigger alive altitude for workers in the country

Charles Boateng, Business Transform Manager, ACET, speaking during the event, said Bunched Ghana was about alive with the apropos of citizens that would bind as a amusing arrangement for political parties to act on. He said the bunched certificate was aimed at allowance anatomy clandestine breadth development, health, gender, altitude change, as able-bodied as the budgetary aspects of the abridgement for the account of Ghanaians

He acclaimed that institutions that mattered in Ghana’s development were affianced in seven key areas to advance the bunched certificate for deliberation

He said: “ACET does not represent any political party. It is an absolute academy that is there for the acceptable of this country by arena the average role amid citizens and politicians.” The bunched certificate aimed to accouterment the basal issues adverse Ghana’s political and bread-and-butter progress

Lucille Hewlett Annan, Commission Secretary, NCCE, said as allotment of the Commission’s ample mandate, it partnered with ACET to accompany citizens calm to advised on issues that were pertinent to bodies in anniversary bounded area. She said: “The capital calendar is to accept a amusing arrangement area citizens can authority duty-bearers accountable.” Alhaji Aliyu Mohammed, Northern Regional Director of NCCE, said the opinions of grassroots citizens were capital in abstraction strategies for growth, abacus their adventures were added across-the-board than those of experts and analysis findings