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Rethink MMDCE elections – Dr Tando proposes MP-led appointment model
He made the proposal at the National Dialogue on Decentralisation and Responsive Governance in Accra, where he presented a discussion paper titled, “The Next Frontier of Democratic Decentralisation: Strengthening District Assemblies as Territorial Platforms of the Ghanaian State for Integrated Public Service Delivery and Local Development.“We continue to hold MPs politically accountable for local development irrespective of the formal institutional location of development responsibility.
Dr Tando argues that the proposal deserves consideration because Ghana's political culture has already transformed MPs into de facto development agents, although their formal constitutional role remains principally legislative and representative.
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