CHIEFS URGED TO PLAY LEADERSHIP ROLES EFFECTIVELY (PAGE 18)

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Robert Kempes Ofosu-Ware, has appealed to chiefs in the area to play their leadership roles effectively to engender the needed conducive atmosphere for development.
He said without a harmonious peaceful and conducive atmosphere and relationship between the leaders and the assembly, it would be difficult to view each other as partners in development who needed to come together to accomplish roles assigned to them.
Mr Ofosu-Ware made the call when he paid separate courtesy calls on the Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku, and the Kpone Mantse, Nii Tetteh Otu, at their palaces in Tema Manhean and Kpone respectively to announce to them his official assumption of office as the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive.
He asked for their prayers, blessings and support to enable him to achieve what he had set out to do for the people in the metropolis.
Mr Ofosu Ware gave a promise to be a good listener and work hard to ensure that in 2012 the electorate renewed their mandate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to continue in office.
He also gave a promise to promote unity in the metropolis to ensure that everybody contributed his quota to the development of the metropolis.
At Tema Manhean, Nii Adjei Kraku urged the metropolitan chief executive to leave a good mark of hard work at the end of his tenure.
Congratulating Mr Ofosu Ware for assuming the high office of the metropolitan chief executive, Nii Kraku stressed the need for him to study structures in the metropolis to enable him to understand the needs of the people to attract their support.
“Tema has expanded leaving behind problems of sanitation among others,” he said.
An elder of the Kpone Traditional Council, Mr Nathaniel T. Nortey, said the assembly concept was supposed to be non-partisan hence the need to de-couple partisanship to give way for development.
He said it was easier to make promises but difficult to fulfil them, and, therefore, called on the metropolitan chief executive to make his ideas visible through action.
The Paramount Chief of the Kpone Traditional Area, Nii Tetteh Otu, said he was glad to receive the new chief executive because as he put it Kpone-Katamanso had been very faithful to the NDC.
He advised Mr Ofosu Ware to be patient with the staff of the assembly but ensure that the right thing was done in accordance with the laws of the assembly and guidelines of the Civil Service.
Nii Otu urged the assembly to set up a task force to strictly enforce building laws and that presently residents in the metropolis had abused the lay-outs and were building indiscriminately with some extending their structures onto the streets.
He expressed concern about the use of dug-out gravel pits on Kpone lands, which had over the years become dumping grounds for liquid waste by private waste management companies from Accra.
Nii Otu said the traditional council would in due course send a delegation to the assembly to discuss issues militating against development in the Kpone area and the metropolis as a whole.
The chief executive was accompanied by a team of officials from the assembly including the Metropolitan Co-ordinating Director, Mr Kwaku Akpotosu, and the Engineer, Mr Victor Mensah.