Prof Ahwoi appointed chairman of IMCC Legislative Review Committee

The Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee connected Decentralisation (IMCC) has inaugurated a Legislative Review Committee (LRC) to reappraisal and harmonise the ineligible and organization model underpinning Ghana’s decentralisation and section governance programme.

At the inaugural gathering of the LRC held astatine the IMCC Secretariat successful Accra, the Executive Secretary of the IMCC, Dr Gameli Kewuribe Hoedoafia unveiled the rank of the committee, with distinguished governance adept and statesman Professor Kwamena Ahwoi named arsenic its Chair.

In his opening remarks, Dr Hoedoafia underscored the value of the Committee’s work, noting that “the LRC formerly the Legislative Review Taskforce has a distinguished way record, having played a cardinal relation successful shaping landmark authorities specified arsenic the promulgation of the Local Governance Act of 2016 (Act 936), the Land Use and Spatial Planning Act of 2016 (Act 925), the Youth Authority Act, the Sports Authority Act of 2016 (Act 939), the Births and Deaths Registration Act of 2020 (Act 1027), and the legislative instruments for the NDPC Act and the NDPC Systems Act.

"Its constitution is some a strategical and urgent measurement toward aligning our decentralisation laws with existent improvement realities.”

He lauded Professor Ahwoi’s acceptance to pb the Committee, describing him arsenic the “Father of Decentralisation successful Ghana”, and expressed assurance successful the Committee’s quality to present a broad and forward-looking ineligible reappraisal to fortify the organization arrangements wrong the sector.

In his remarks, Professor Ahwoi reaffirmed his committedness to the task and the broader nationalist decentralisation agenda.

He stressed that effectual decentralisation is foundational to sustainable improvement and praised President John Dramani Mahama for his visionary enactment successful advancing decentralisation reforms during his tenure arsenic Vice President and past arsenic President.

“The IMCC has an inter-sectoral argumentation coordination role, and this Legislative Review Committee volition enactment hard to place and suggest remedies for ineligible gaps wrong the assorted sectoral laws."

Dr Hoedoafia assured the committee of the needed enactment to transportation retired its mandate.

The Legislative Review Committee of the IMCC is composed of seasoned legal, policy, and governance professionals, including: Ms. Estelle Appiah, Expert successful Legislative Drafting and Peer Review Mechanisms, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Former Ranking Member, Parliamentary Select Committee connected Local Government.

Alhaji Ishaq Alhassan, Former Director, Local Governance and Legal Affairs, MLGRD, Dr Rainer Akumperigya, Legal Practitioner and Secretary, Constitutional Review Committee, Ms Heidi Boakye, Principal State Attorney, Office of the Attorney-General.

Also, Dr Nana Opare Gyan, Former Director of M&E, NDPC, Stephen Ankugre, NALAG Council Member and Presiding Member (PM), Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, Pln Samuel Seth Passah, Director for Local Governance and Decentralisation, Dr Richard Fiadomor, President, Chamber of Local Government, and Ing Baah Tetteh, Acting Director, Management and Technical Services, Office of the Head of the Local Government Service.

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