{"id":411157,"date":"2018-03-20T05:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411157"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:32:18","slug":"nana-addo-justifies-creation-of-new-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411157","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo justifies creation of new districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has hit back at critics who say the creation of new districts and municipalities is unnecessary.<\/p>\n

The President said the creation of new districts will bring\u00a0development to the doorstep of many and deepen Ghana\u2019s democratic processes.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”UmPFq2Aoy2TuOLsr6ZfvG8Vlv4eYvocp”]The government has received some criticism over the creation of 38 new districts and municipalities across the country.<\/p>\n

But speaking before some Chiefs from the Upper West Region at a meeting on Monday, President Akufo-Addo affirmed that decentralization was key to development.<\/p>\n

“We want the decentralization exercise to succeed, to really bring the government closer to the doorstep of people and that is the way we will get better governance in our country. We believe in it strongly and that is the reason for the enhancement of the district assembly and districts across the country,” he said.<\/p>\n

The 38 newly created districts officially commenced work last Thursday.<\/p>\n

This was after the passing of a Legislative Instrument allowed for their creation as well as the\u00a0carving out of some municipalities from other assemblies, and the elevation of some existing districts to municipality status.<\/p>\n

This was followed by the Electoral Commission undertaking a field study into the viability of the creation of more Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.<\/p>\n

The field study was to consider the population dynamics in the respective regions, the geographical or physical features of the areas, their economic viability, as well as ethnic and community interests.<\/p>\n

It also considered social infrastructure and the centrality and accessibility of the capital.<\/p>\n

Critique of new districts<\/strong><\/p>\n

President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, is one of the critiques of this attempt at decentralization,and has said the\u00a038 newly created local assemblies were needless.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cudjoe argued that some of the existing assemblies are already struggling and that government should have put measures in place to boost their capacities instead of bringing new ones on-board.<\/p>\n

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IMANI Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s basic geographic information that tells you that even if you want to do these type of division, at least look for some agglomeration of activity. You assume that you have to create it before the activities come, no. The districts are barely $1.5 billion worth averagely. You need to build the capability of the existing ones,\u201d he noted<\/p>\n

The list of new districts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ahafo Ano South West District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ahafo Ano South East District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Amansie South District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Amansie West District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Atwima Nwabiagya North District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Adansi South District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Akrofruom District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Adansi North District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Adansi Asokwa District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Obuasi East District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Afigya Kwabre South District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Afigya Kwabre North District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pru West District Assembly)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pru East District Assembly)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Berekum West District Assembly)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Assin North District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gomoa Central District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gomoa East District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Asene Manso District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Okere District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Atiwa West District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Atiwa East District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fanteakwa South District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fanteakwa North District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nanton District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bunkpurugu District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yunyoo District Assembly)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bolga East District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Garu District Assembly<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tempane District Assembly<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Sammi Wiafe & Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has hit back at critics who say the creation of new districts and municipalities is unnecessary. The President said the creation of new districts will bring\u00a0development to the doorstep of many and deepen Ghana\u2019s democratic processes. [contextly_sidebar id=”UmPFq2Aoy2TuOLsr6ZfvG8Vlv4eYvocp”]The government has received some criticism over the creation of 38 new districts and municipalities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":407083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18111,3,1746,156],"class_list":["post-411157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-decetralisation","tag-ghana-news","tag-local-governance","tag-nana-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411157","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=411157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}