Minister for the Central Region, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan has urged various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the region to offer their Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Coordinating Directors (MMDCDs) the maximum respect due them to facilitate effective coexistence at the region's Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).

In welcoming the region's twenty-two MMDCEs and their MMDCDs to the signing of the 2024 Performance Contract at the Central Regional Coordinating Council, the Minister encouraged all MMDCEs and MMDCDs on the need to work, stay and gel together to respect each other.

She told MMDCEs in the region that it shouldn't always be on the path of their Coordinating Directors to be bending and bowing to pay them obeisance, but impelled them to equally respect and listen to their MMDCDs as the chief advisors they are to them in other to deliver on their required tenets inscribed in their 2024 Performance Contract.

The Honourable Regional Minister equally required of the MMDCDs to also give the MMDCEs the maximum support and cooperation they need.

She stressed that should MMDCEs and MMDCDs cohesively discharge their duties effectively, will have fractions often witnessed at the region's MMDAs become a thing of the past.

The Performance Contract is a yearly activity, undertaken to mandate all 22 MMDCEs in the region and their MMDCDs to discharge their duties honorably as enshrined in the Local Governance Act 2016 (Act 936).

Hon. Justina Marigold Assan further encouraged the region's MMDCEs and MMDCDs to institutionalize system of rewards to their staffs, particularly to those they rarely draw to the discussion table (i.e. the cooks, gardeners and cleaners).

This according to her, will create a robust performance culture for the effectiveness of the MMDAs 2024 Performance Contract and should also sanction staffs when the need arises.

Dean for the region's Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Coordinating Directors (MMDCDs), Dr. John Nunya who on behalf of the MMDCDs gave an assurance speech, relayed that they will see to it that the contract signed wouldn't be a mere signing but that which will be highly esteemed.

He again assured the region's MMDCEs of the MMDCDs unwavering support towards them to uphold the 2024 Performance Contract, amid the fact that this year appears a challenging year.

Hence they (MMDCEs) should share with them their intentions as they (MMDCDs) will see to its actualization.

Dr. John Nunya added that the region's MMDCDs will do all within their power to use resources available at hand judiciously to implement government's policy and to be professional as much as possible.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan