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The Vice-President, Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, has charged the newly inaugurated Local Government Service Council to live up to its core mandate while upholding a sense of injtegrity in offering, among others, honest advice on administrative decentralisation.

“Ensure that Local Government Services remains committed to its core values of professionalism, objectivity, integrity, accountability, impartiality, neutral and customer sensitive”, he noted.
The Vice-President inducted the 15-member council at the Flagstaff House in Accra yesterday.

He entreated the members of the council to bring their experience to bear in helping develop a better, effective multi-sectoral co-operation with other services, departments and agencies for better implementation of government programmes.

“Your invitation to serve on the council is to tap into your reserve knowledge, expertise, skills in the management of the service. I have no doubt that I can count on your competence, ability, influence and dedicated service.”

He requested of the council to, among others, ensure that the implementation of human resource policies are fair to all and devoid of favouritism.

The council is chaired by Mr Rex Owusu, with members including Dr Esther O. Ofei-Aboagye and Rev Mrs Sanatu Nantogma, all nominees of the President; Dr Dadson Awunyo-Vitor, Director of the Institute of Local Government Studies, and Nana Soglo Alloh IV, National House of Chiefs.

The others are Dr Stephen N.A. Arthur, head of Local Government Services; Gladys Gillian N. Tetteh, Mr Shaka Sayuti, both nominees of Civil Service Organisation; Mrs Dorothy Akosua Onny, Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development; and Mr Isaac Asiamah, Director General, NDPC.

The other members are Isaac Nsarko Biney, Ministry of Education; Dr John K. Awoonor-Williams, Ministry of Health; Irene Naa Torshie Addo, Administrator of District Assemblies’ Common Fund; Felix M. Nii Anang-La, National Association of Local Government Authorities of Ghana; Mr Abdul Haleem Amadu, Local Government Workers.