INAUGURATION OF ASSEMBLY MEMBERS
The inauguration follows the successful District Level Elections in December last year that elected new assembly and unit committee members to serve in the various assemblies for the next four years.
The District Level Elections are held every four years and take place a year before the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. As part of the inauguration, representatives of the President would deliver his inaugural address and all elected assembly and unit committee members across the 259 MMDAs would be sworn in to officially commence their mandate to ensure the smooth and effective discharge of their duties in their respective electoral areas.
Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Dan Botwe said the President had paid heed to the calls to ensure that more women and PWDs were appointed to serve this year.
Of the 66,257 candidates who contested in the district assembly elections held in December last year, 18,755 were assembly member candidates, while 47,502 were unit committee candidates according to statistics sourced from the Electoral Commission.
Out of the 18,755 candidates, 6,215 were elected to serve in the 259 MMDAs, per Section 5 (1) (b) Local Government Act, 2016 (Act 936) which states that “A District Assembly shall consist of one person from each electoral area within the district elected by universal adult suffrage following regulations made for the purpose by the Electoral Commission”.
For the unit committee members, 31,075 were elected out of the 47,502, given that each electoral area had five unit committee members.
The District Chief Executive for Talensi Mr. Thomas Pearson Duanab Wuni lauded all Twenty Two (22) elected and Ten (10) government appointees to work hard for the development of the district in the coming years. He again thanked all invited members for making the inaugural ceremony a success.