NCCE WORKSHOP AT NEW EDUBIASE (PAGE 14, DEC 3)

THE Ashanti Regional office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), under the sponsorship of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has organised a public education programme on local governance at New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region to precede the District Assembly Elections slated for 2010.
The programme was aimed at creating the needed platform for advocacy and fruitful engagement of the people on the election process.
It also sought to increase public awareness and active participation in the decentralised governance system in the country.
In all 40 districts in the country, five of them from the Ashanti Region, will benefit from the exercise.
Addressing the participants, Mr Samuel Akuamoah, Director of Programmes, NCCE, observed that Ghana’s democracy had been acclaimed as one of the best in the world.
He mentioned the five successive times that general elections had been conducted without any serious violence, as one area that the world acknowledged.
“As they shower praises on us, we should not allow complacency to overtake us but rather continue to search for new measures to remain focused and move the country forward,” Mr Akuamoah stressed.
He asked women to stand for elections in the 2010 district level election. 
Participants suggested that there should be a specific programme in the country where the voters register would be opened every year to enable those who have attained 18 years of age to register.
Mr Yakubu Alhassan, Ashanti Regional Director of the NCCE, urged parents to be mindful of their children’s education for a better future for them and the country.
Mr Alhassan commended the people for the massive turnout for the programme.