MMDCEs TO GET PROs
The Ministry of
Information has announced the government’s plans to assign spokespersons and
press secretaries for Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives
across the country.
The Minister of
Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who announced during a media encounter at
Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital said the move will enable MMDCEs to
focus on their core job and also help them provide timely and adequate
information to the public.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
explained, “We are working to ensure that they (MMDCEs) can have PROs and Press
Secretaries who can engage you more. Even the president himself is leading the
work and I am the one who is traveling from Takoradi to Ho, Cape Coast, Oti
Region to Koforidua so I can engage you, the same way the mayor, the MMDCE is
doing several things, occasionally he may be able to speak to you but we must
help him by getting him a press secretary or spokesperson who can on regular
basis be responding to you”.
Mr Oppong-Nkrumah
charged the media as the fourth estate of the realm to help the government by
highlighting issues of security and terrorism as they posed threat to the
sovereign integrity of the country.
He noted that the West
African sub-region was highly dominated with terrorist activities but said the
government’s systems were alert, adding, it was imperative for the media to
play their role professionally to support.
On other matters, the
Eastern Regional Minister also said the construction of the 160-bed capacity
Regional Hospital is progressing steadily, contrary to some reports that
suggest that the project has been stalled.
According to the
Regional Minister, the project was being constructed in phases and that the
method of designing and construction of a regional hospital took some time.
Source :
dailyguidenetwork.com