The Western Regional Minister, E.K.T. Addo, has said that metropolitan, Municipal Chief Executives have no business giving excuses and blaming others for their inability to deliver. He insists that all MMDCEs have learned all that there is in respect of their job as they enter the second year of their four-year mandate and therefore have no reason to blame others for their failures.
The MMDCEs, he said, could at best fall on their colleagues to exchange notes and adopt the best practices therein, including periodic review of their activities.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day End-of-Year review meeting for the twenty-two Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives in the Region Friday, the minister said with the experience acquired, the MMDCEs should be in a better position to deliver to meet the needs and aspirations of the people.
He also charged the MMDCEs to be transparent and account to the people so that they would understand them even if some felt their needs have not been met. �Our focus should be to endeavor to make our people far better than the state in which they were before we assume political power,� he reminded the MMDCEa.
The Minister lamented that Western region is beset with a lot of problems, such as chieftainship and land disputes, sanitation and illegal mining popularly called �galamsey�, adding that it is the duty of the MMDCEs to help address these problems.
In trying to solve these problems, Mr. Addo cautioned the MMDCEs against taking sides or involving themselves directly or indirectly in the very problem they claim to be solving.
Information available to the "New Statesman" has it that some MMDCEs are by proxy or directly involved in illegal mining.
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