Presidential candidate for the opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, has promised to create another region from the Western Region, should he emerge winner in the December polls.
“The northern part of the region [Western North] has to get its own region if Akuffo Addo becomes the next President of Ghana,” he said.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Y8HqInxJgzxnIpSQO3B17anLpXjl0U3y”]He explained the move will facilitate development in the northern part of the Western Region.
Speaking at Juaboso as part of his five-day visit of the region, Nana Addo explained that government will follow all the “constitutional provisions to get this new region.”
Nana Addo believes an independent Western North Region will enhance the governance of the region.
Nana Addo’s promise adds to the many proposals to carve another region out of the Western Region, because of the distance between northern and the southern part of the region.
Among those who have proposed the creation is the former Western Regional Minister in the Kufour administration Joseph Boahen Aidoo.
He argued that the distance between the north and south makes it difficult to effectively run the region.
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The current Western Regional Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo, recently charged the people of the region to make a request to the president for such a move to be effected “because the regional capital is far separated from the other parts of the region.”
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By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo/citifmonline.com/Ghana