Govt will not protect anyone who fall foul of the law – Justina to MDCEs

The Bono Regional Minister, Justina Owusu-Banahene has cautioned, the new MMDCEs that, the position they occupied could push them to use illegitimate avenues to make money but warned that the government would not protect anyone who would fall foul of the law by traversing that path.

She disclosed this at the swearing in ceremony of the new MMDCE’S in the Bono region, they were sworn into office on Thursday, October 14th 2021, after they were confirmed by assembly members in their respective assemblies.

Present at the occasion were the Bono Regional Chairman of the party Kwame Baffoe also known as Abronye DC, Vice President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs Okogyiridom Sakyi Ako II, Hon Adjei Darko former minister for Local Government and rural development and other high ranking government and party officials.

Hon Justina Owusu-Banahene in her speech identified some of the surest ways for them to exact respect and win the support and confidence of their people as making themselves accessible to the people, listening to them, empathising with them and sharing their aspirations.

The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe Abronye delivering his speech cautioned the Municipal District Chief Executives to avoid situations where they become lords rather than servants of the people they have been nominated to serve.

He appealed to the MMDCEs to engage in acts that will make the party proud in their respectives assemblies in order to break the eight year cycle.