New local Assemblies have been inaugurated across Ghana following the successful conduct of district level elections late last year.

New local Assemblies have been inaugurated across Ghana following the successful conduct of district level elections late last year.

More than 66,000 local government representatives were elected ending 2023, among them, over 47,000 unit committee members also voted for.

A total 259 Assemblies out of the 261 that conducted the elections, held the inauguration ceremonies on Monday, and followed it immediately with the election of Presiding Members.

The election of Assembly and Unit Committee Members has been a successful event since 1988, and Monday’s inauguration installed the 9th Assembly of the nation’s Fourth Republic. The local governance structure was sanctioned by an Act of Ghana’s Constitution, and representatives to the Local Assemblies are elected for a four-year tenure.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, in a speech read on his behalf at the various ceremonies, extolled progress with Ghana’s decentralisation, which he said continued to deepen over the years.

Assembly Members were thus entreated to work towards advancing the decentralisation, and the President assured of the Government’s continuous investment in enhancing their competence on the job. The President asked the new Assemblies to align their action plans with the Government’s economic program.