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Some traditional rulers and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Council of Elders in the Wassa-East District, have petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Ministry of Local Government to appoint Mr. Godfred Okyere-Owusu, a government appointee at the Wassa-East District Assembly, as the new District Chief Executive (DCE) .
According to them, Mr. Okyere-Owusu having served as an Assembly Member for Sekyere-Krobo electoral area between 2011 and 2015, and a government appointee since 2017, has chalked remarkable feat with the establishment of an Education Endowment fund for students in his electoral area.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the Divisional Chief of Sekyere Traditional Area and Tufuhene of Wassa-Fiase Traditional Council (WFTC), Nana Kwadu Kyerefo III on behalf of the nine other chiefs and Mr. R.O.D. Osei who signed on behalf of NPP Council of Elders in the Wassa-East constituency, copied to the Western Regional Minister, Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah in Takoradi.
The statement said Mr. Okyere-Owusu had always demonstrated through past working experience to be very hard-working, humble and respectable gentleman, well-cultured in utterances, very affable with a great sense of humour”.
According to the signatories to the statement, the DCE nominee’s ability and consistency in debates on the floor of the house during Assembly sittings is enviable”.
“Some of us, Nananom, were not surprised to see him at the Assembly again as government appointee under President Nana Akufo-Addo’s regime in 2017”.
The chiefs and party leaders also identified the DCE nominee as a unifier capable of bringing people in the District who seem to be divided on political lines together with his good inter-personal relationship irrespective of party affiliations especially in terms of developmental issues.
Mr. Owusu-Sekyere holds a Bsc in Procurement and Supply Chain Management from the University of Education, Winneba.