CDD urges District Assemblies to help improve lives of city dwellers.
Research by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) shows that people living in the cities of Ghana are “stressed”.
The research dubbed: ” Ghana Cities Monitor”, seeks to measure the quality of life of the people living in the cities of the nation.
Twenty-three cities in Ghana were used in the quality of life research conducted by the CDD.
The cities comprise the three Metropolitan Assemblies which are the Kumasi Metropolis, the Accra Metropolis, and the Tamale Metropolis.
Others are the 20 Municipal Assemblies in the Ashanti region, Greater Accra region, and the Northern region.
The CDD examined six major components and 17 sub-components in measuring the quality of life.
A Research Analyst at CDD-Ghana, Mr Gildfred Asiamah says none of the cities were able to score a quarter out of 100 in terms of local governance, participation, and accountability per people experience.
Others are the provision of health, education, social protection, availability of job opportunities, and markets.
Mr Asiamah, however, said issues of communication, electricity, and water services were appreciated per the experience of the people they engaged in the research.
“If you look at all these indicators and if you look at the scores across the cities it basically tells you that things are really challenging and people within the city spaces are stressed,” he said.
Speaking to the media at a public engagement on the Ghana cities Monitor held in Kumasi, he called on the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies to do more to improve the lives of people.
For his part, Prof Sarfo-Mensa of the Department of Bureau of Integrated Rural Development at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and all p Technology (KNUST) called for the election of the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives.
The election, he said, would push the MMDCEs to work to improve and better the lives of people to ensure that they maintain their seats.
