He said since assembly members served as role models for other people in society, “they should be first gentlemen and women among equals. They should always live by examples because they are people's role models”.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, he said assembly members must seek to avoid meddling in unnecessary partisan politics since such attitude would divide the front of the people in their respective electoral areas.

Partisanship

Dr Osae urged the assembly members to avoid acts that would lead to disunity among them, avoid meddling in the administrative and procurement activities, saying "that is the work of the technical officers.

The assembly members are decision makers.

They make the decisions and then the technical officers implement the decisions.

They can't make the decisions and then implement them at the same time.

They should avoid meddling in the day-to-day administration of the district assemblies," he said.

Development

Dr Osae said assembly members should work together with their chief executives to promote the development agenda of the district.

He urged them to avoid undermining their chief executives, declaring that "this is because once you work to undermine or you are at loggerheads with the chief executive, nothing will be achieved in the assembly".

He also appealed to assembly members to avoid standing in as sureties for people who engaged themselves in criminal activities.

He advised them to be development conscious and to bring local governance to the doorstep of the people, touch base with the people, work towards getting the assemblies to institutionalise mandatory platform meetings, before and after every assembly meeting since "that is proper local governance".

Unit committees

Dr Osae urged all district assemblies to make sure that their unit committees were working because the unit committee was the lowest level of the local government structure.

He said the operationalisation of unit committees and the district sub-structures should be one among the priorities of all district assemblies.