The Chairman of the Joint Consultative Committee for the Oti Movement – Nana Krachiwura Mprah Besemuna III – has condemned comments and actions that have the potential to affect the peace in the Volta Region.
According to him, the peace the region has been enjoying over the years should not be marred with unsavory comments and actions because “some people are for or against the creation of the Oti Region.”
He made the call when he chaired the inauguration of the Referendum Campaign Committee (RCC) for the proposed Oti Region. The RCC is among over things mandated to roam the nook and cranny of the proposed Oti enclave to secure 100% YES votes in the December referendum.
The eminent chief who controls a good part of the northern part of the Volta Region stressed that the desire for the creation of a new region out of the existing one has no ulterior motive and so those who are apprehensive and sending the wrong signals through provocative words, misinformation and beating of war drums should desist from that.
Oti Not for War
He stated that no amount of provocation or stumbling blocks would detract the focus of the people in the Oti enclave, saying “if you are on a journey and you stop to pick things that people have thrown at you and throw them back, you will never reach your destination and you will lose focus”.
He warned that “war is serious business and not an expedition to go and collect snails”. He asked all detractors to stop threatening proponents of the Oti Region in their quest to register their disapproval.
Nana Mprah Besemuna added that the creation of the region does not warrant a war and he does not anticipate one. However, the government should ensure that such utterances are checked and the lives of people protected as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.
Oti Not Tribal
The ‘tough’ spoken chief reiterated that the demand for a new region is not motivated by any tribal or ethnic consideration. To this end, any suggestion or imputation of tribal or ethnic agenda to their demand for a new region is either borne out of plain ignorance or deliberate mischief, both of which cannot serve as an excuse for the beating of war drums as some detractors seem to be doing.
He asserted: “We wish to state emphatically that the sole objective and purpose for the creation of the Oti Region is to bring about development to the people of the area.”
According to him, if resources allocated to the region over the years for developmental projects were equitably and fairly distributed, the people in the northern part would not be demanding for the creation of a new region.
Nana Mprah Besemuna was hopeful that after a resounding YES votes, the new region would help deepen decentralization which comes with its benefits in terms of governance, the injection of more resources into the area for accelerated development, creation of jobs, and the coordination of developmental programmes.
Source: Daily Guide
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Fiakpui Frank, if the creation of the Oti region is going to affect your secession to create the Western Togo, I think the people have made it clear they wouldn't be part if that since they voted overwhelmingly to be in Ghana in the plebiscite referendum! and I tell you nobody can force them to be part of that state! I think some small stretch of the Northern region was part of the Trans Volta Togoland and I doubt if they will be willing to also be part of that since a friend from Yendi once said they will never be part of that so why are you so bothered about these people crying for their development which you want to tell them not the creation of a region will give them development but what? UW gets her quota as well as UE and go to Wa of today and compare Wa of yesteryear and see if they are the same? Go to Sunyani of today and compare the Sunyani of Western Ashanti in the yesteryear and see if they are the same? why are you holding their destiny are you in the southern Volta their creators or masters? some parts of the Eastern region has been added to Greater Accra and the heavens didn't fall eg are Osudoku, Shai Hills, Dodowa etc but who said what in the Eastern region we know we are all one people ,one nation and one destiny if they feel comfortable we are also ok and why can't you do same but terrorizing these people? why are you making the Volta region an island in Ghana? sometime ago you prohibited some Ghanaians from coming to your area whiles you moved around in Ghana freely! we don't want our Ghana like that every part every region welcomes every Ghanaian and you must emulate that and stop making yourselves more special than others! "VOTE YES FOR OTI"
Nana Mprah Besemuna thanks for the wisdom and knowledge given to you by God. Use this wisdom to help people of the northern volta. May you live long to see a prosperous Oti region.
you rather have displayed a high level of ignorance. you need free shs
Stop the ignorance you are displaying. Is the creation of the Oti region going to add any additional resource to the all ready existing resource in this country?. Development is not about creation of new regions .Its about devolution and equitable distribution of resources.