{"id":238525,"date":"2016-08-12T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238525"},"modified":"2016-08-12T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:49:46","slug":"ill-create-another-region-from-western-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238525","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll create another region from Western &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The northern part of the region [Western North] has to get its own region if Akuffo Addo becomes the next President of Ghana,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Y8HqInxJgzxnIpSQO3B17anLpXjl0U3y&#8221;]He explained the move will facilitate development in the northern part of the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Juaboso as part of his five-day visit of the region, Nana Addo explained that government will follow all the &#8220;constitutional provisions to get this new region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo believes an independent Western North Region will enhance the governance of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo&#8217;s promise adds to the many proposals to carve\u00a0another region out of the Western Region, because of the distance between northern and the southern part \u00a0of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who have proposed the creation is the former Western Regional Minister in the Kufour administration Joseph Boahen Aidoo.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the distance between the north and south makes it difficult to effectively run the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petition Mahama to create new regions \u2013 Minister\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The current Western Regional Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/10\/petition-mahama-to-create-new-regions-minister\/\">recently charged<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the people of the region to make a request to the president for such a move to be effected &#8220;because the regional capital is far separated from the other parts of the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;The northern part of the region [Western North] has to get its own region if Akuffo Addo becomes the next President of Ghana,&#8221; he said. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Y8HqInxJgzxnIpSQO3B17anLpXjl0U3y&#8221;]He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":238526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}