{"id":345162,"date":"2017-08-15T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345162"},"modified":"2017-08-15T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:55:43","slug":"theres-substantial-demand-for-new-regions-council-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345162","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s substantial demand for new regions\u2019 \u2013 Council of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of State has, unanimously, informed the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that there is a substantial demand for the creation of new regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Council has, therefore, advised President Akufo-Addo to appoint a Commission of Enquiry \u201cto inquire into the need and to make recommendations on all the factors involved in the creation of the new regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345163 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/President-Akufo-Addo-responds-to-remarks-by-Nana-Otuo-Siriboe.jpg\" alt=\"president-akufo-addo-responds-to-remarks-by-nana-otuo-siriboe\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nana Otuo Siriboe II made this known on Tuesday, 15<sup>th<\/sup> August, 2017, when the Council of State held its 2<sup>nd<\/sup> meeting with the President of the Republic, at the Flagstaff House after studying the petitions for the creation of new regions which were forwarded to the Council.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chairperson, the Council of State, on the 29<sup>th<\/sup> of June, received a communication from the President seeking the Council\u2019s advice on the creation of new regions, as stipulated in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The communication, he said, contained copies of the petitions from the Chiefs and people of the Western, Northern, Brong-Ahafo and Volta Regions \u201cfrom where the demands from the creation of new regions had been the most vociferous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345166 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Minister-for-Regional-Reorientation-Dan-Botwe.jpg\" alt=\"minister-for-regional-reorientation-dan-botwe\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was after members meticulously went \u00a0through the petitions, which the Chairperson of the Council of State stated, was accompanied by maps and statistical data.<\/p>\n<p>The Council was also briefed by the Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe, on his interactions with the Chiefs and people of the four regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister did impress the Council with the elaborate home work he has done on this exercise including the extensive literature review on Ghana\u2019s geo-political structure,\u201d Nana Otuo Sriboe II said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201chaving studied the petitions submitted and the detailed briefing by the Hon. Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, it is of the unanimous opinion that there is a substantial demand for the creation of new regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345165 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Council-of-State-Chairperson-Nana-Otuo-Siriboe-II.jpg\" alt=\"council-of-state-chairperson-nana-otuo-siriboe-ii\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo, during the election season promised to split some existing regions including the Western and Volta Regions<\/p>\n<p>Akufo-Addo who had earlier said the splitting of the regions was at the consideration stage added that a referendum will be held after all the internal and constitutional processes were completed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of State has, unanimously, informed the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that there is a substantial demand for the creation of new regions. The Council has, therefore, advised President Akufo-Addo to appoint a Commission of Enquiry \u201cto inquire into the need and to make recommendations on all the factors involved in the creation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[8,3,1660],"class_list":["post-345162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ghana-news","tag-new-regions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345162","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=345162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}