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October 9, 2025
The absence of cordial working relationship between Members of Parliament (MPs) and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) is bound to affect development at the grass root, the Bunkpurugu lawmaker Abed-Nego Lamangin Bandim has asserted.
According to him good working relationship between MPs and MMDCEs is the only way to achieve results for the people at the grassroot.
He noted in an interview in Parliament at the ongoing public hearing of the Committee on Local Governent and Rural Development on Thursday, October 9, 2025, that without that cordial relationship there would be developmental deficits.
“That is why the committee is very much interested in their work, because the needed resources may be available, but once there is no cooperation between the two major actors at the local level who are development agents, then development is going to suffer”.
As to whether MPs who are in opposition would have the cooperation of MMDCES, he noted that they should have because he has been an opposition MP before and he had a good working relationship with his former Chief Executive despite the fact that his party was in government he was consulting him as an MP anytime he was going to undertake major projects.
Again, things work well when the two are able to come together to collaborate but the people suffer when there is division; and pointed out a vivid case that came before the Committee where in the Eastern Region at Nsawam Adoagyiri the Chief Executive told the Committee he did not have a good working relationship with the MP and the committee took upon itself to address the problem.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com