The CSOs platform on Good Governance has made a passionate appeal to government to ensure adequate and timely provision of resources to the Northern Development Authority (NDA), for the accelerated economic and social development of the Northern Zone.
According to the group lack of resources will hamper successful delivery and achievement of the Northern Development Authority’s core mandate; hence a call on government to heed this call.
The group also wants the elimination of the influence of any central ministry or agency from leading procurement and usurping the powers of the authority to help it live up to standard.
By so doing it wants the NDA board to be given full mandate to take decisions and supervise management implementation of its programs and policies.
In a release copied to FiilaNews and signed by Mr. Alhassan Mohammed Awal, the Executive Director – Norsaac and Convenor of the CSOs Platform on Good Governance, it describes as satisfactory the appointment of Dr. Abdulai Mobson and Mr. Sumaila Abdul-Rahman to serve as the Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer for the NDA, respectively.
“The recent appointment has been considered appropriate, carefully done. forward looking and appears to be a response to demands of CSOs and well- meaning Ghanaians to have the right people at the authority for the rapid development of the North”.
The CSOs Platform has thus congratulated the two appointees for catching the eyes of His Excellency the President, and challenge them to leverage on the several decades accumulated experience to transform the authority.
The appointment of the two must be seen as a new journey and we expect nothing but an inclusive process that awakens the spirits of all citizens of Northern Ghana, the statement added.
The CSOs platform with Norsaac as a convenor assures the leadership of its unflinching support to advance the shared goals of sustainable development and human rights in Northern Ghana and Ghana at large.
The CSOs platform on Good Governance is a collection of NGOs based in Northern Ghana working on governance and human right issues which is made up of over 30 CSOs and state institutions.
Source:Fiilafmonline/ShawanaYussif
