Mr Johnson Opoku, Grater Accra Regional Deputy Director, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has appealed to women to endeavour to contest for positions in the impending district level elections slated for February 2015.

He also appealed to women who could not contest to vote for those who would contest.

Mr Opoku said this during an educational forum for the Peace and Love Ladies Club at Dawhenya on the need to participate in the district local elections.

He said the NCCE had realised that although Ghanaians were interested in elections, that interest had only been vested in the general election to the detriment of the local government election.

“It has come to our notice that the participation of Ghanaians in the district level elections is only between 30 to 40 per cent which is very low as compared to the general election,” he said.

He said the NCCE had embarked on a programme aimed at educating women and persons with disability in particular to participate in the elections in all the 16 districts in the region.

Mrs Gifty Badu, District Director for NCCE, Ningo/Prampram, appealed to women not to feel intimidated but endeavour to contest.

She said the district level elections are non-political and appealed to people to stop politically tagging those who expressed the desire to contest.

Mrs Badu appealed to the women to attend meetings organised by their assembly members so as to take part in the decision-making of their localities.