Youth groups in the Ashaiman Municipality, under the umbrella of the Ashaiman Youth Coalition (AYOC), have organised a breakfast meeting to unite them and strengthen the youth front for national development.
The former executive of the AYOC was dissolved and a new seven-member ad hoc committee was put in place to review the constitution of the coalition and act as the electoral college for the election of substantive executive members of the AYOC on July 1, 2010.
The committee was tasked to submit its report and findings to enable changes to be made for the election to take place.
The acting President of the AYOC and founding member, Mr Prince Mohammed, said the coalition had encountered setbacks since its inception in 2001 and had not been able to oversee the activities of the youth in Ashaiman, thus creating internal leadership problems.
He stated that some executive members had joined the groups with individual political intentions and, therefore, created tension which had given Ashaiman and its youth a bad name.
Mr Mohammed said with the new interventions, Ashaiman must begin to see different dimensions of good things to make it assume a good name befitting its status as a municipality.
He said AYOC was formed to bring all youth groups in Ashaiman together in unity to pursue its development hence the reason for the fight for a municipal status.
Mr Mohammed appealed to the youth in Ashaiman to help restore the vibrancy in the coalition and remove hatred, self-centred motives and political interests from it in order to build a just coalition of youth groups.
He commended the founding members of the coalition and urged them to help maintain peace and tranquillity in the Ashaiman Municipality.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Numo Adinortey Addison, swore in the seven-member committee and appealed to them to be fair and ensure that the constitution of the coalition was made viable for the growth of the youth in national development.
He appreciated the youth for using the AU Day to unite for what the day stood for.
Numo Addison said the AU Day was dedicated to the youth to enable them to know how the founding fathers of the country struggled to hold the continent together.
He said the youth in Ashaiman should commit themselves to the development of the municipality and consider its beginning and where it was now.
Numo Addison said as Africa focused on Ghana for the celebration of the day, the youth in Ashaiman should take the opportunity to strengthen the youth front for progress.
He announced that the assembly was setting up an integrated centre for employable skills to train the youth to become entrepreneurs.
Numo Addison urged the youth to show interest in the forthcoming district level elections to enable them to exhibit their vibrancy and youthful ideas in nation building.
The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Malam Abdul Karim Abass, thanked the youth for the trust reposed in him and the other committee members.
He said the members would work hard to ensure that they came out with a good working paper to enable the youth in Ashaiman to stand up in unity and in strength.
Malam Abass appealed to the youth groups to make inputs into the constitution to make it comprehensive and uniform.
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