It depends on who is seeing it as big. If in their own opinion, they think the region should be divided into two, I think it is fine if only there is money enough to cater for that project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Another\u00a0posited that, the region could function as a state on its own given the resources the region was endowed with.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Western Region can even be a state on its own looking at the harbor, an airport, oil and other resources”.<\/p>\n
A number of the residents were generally of the view that, the extra region would help better spread the wealth across the region.<\/p>\n
It will be very good if we divide it so the other areas must also have some benefit from the nation. At the moment, the nation has neglected those places without giving them any better development. So if that place is being divided, they can also get something better from the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some residents of the Western Regional capital, Sekondi-Takoradi ,appear to be in favour of a possible 11th region being carved out the northern part of that region. The Presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, during his just-ended five day tour of the Western Region, revealed the intentions of the NPP to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239804","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239804\/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=239804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}