The creation of new regions by the Akufo-Addo-led government is inessential because that is not what the people of Ghana need at the moment, Abraham Amaliba, a private legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said.
According to him, the resources and money that would have been used in creating the new regions should rather be channeled into development projects in the already existing regions.
Both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) promised to create new regions ahead of last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections; elections the NPP won.
Contributing to a discussion on GH One television on Friday, Mr. Amaliba, whose party also promised to create the new regions, ironically questioned the rationale of the new regions saying: “In my view, this is an unnecessary exercise. The creation will mean that they will have access to portable water, access to education, schools, and hospitals and so I ask can’t we provide these things without necessarily creating new regions?
“The new region will open the Pandora’s Box for every region or ethnic group calling for a region. You don’t want to do that because we want to put everybody together.”
However, also commenting on the same programme, Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, said the argument of my Amaliba was “bogus” and “porous”.
He believed that the criticisms against the creation of the new regions smack of hypocrisy because the NDC also promised to do same if they won the elections.
He said: “This is a bogus and porous argument Amaliba is putting up. The NDC in 2016 manifesto stated in black and white that they were going to create new regions and so for somebody like Amaliba if someone else is doing it, is bad.
“Go to the people in the regions and find out their sentiments about the creation. Governance is about making the people happy and so we are doing that.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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when Mahama was promising by then Amaliba was ok with that, i call this intellectual dishonest
Honestly, shut yo a$$ dafuq up! You're beginning to sound like a broken record. Y'all only agitate for self rule when NPP comes to power. When it's Ndc you suddenly lose your voice. I know your post was put up by Captain Brooks! He didn't agitate for self rule when he was standing as MP in Accra! He wasn't interested then! He also has several houses in Accra, meaning in case the government decided to let Volta land go, mr Crooks, sorry Brooks would sit and hide out in Accra while the people he deceived would continue to suffer! Just stop it already!
DON,T FAULT AMALIBA, BECAUSE HE IS ONLY GLUED TO ACCRA AND HAS NEVER TRAVELLED TO ANY OF THE AREAS REQUESTING FOR THE CREATION OF NEW REGIONS. IF HE HAS TRAVELLED FROM TAKORADI TO OSEIKOJOKROM HE WOULD RATHER CALL FOR THE FACILITATION OF THE CREATION. IN ANY CASE WAS IT LOGICAL THEN TO HAVE SPLIT THE UPPER REGION INTO TWO REGIONS. DID I HEAR, SOME ONE STATE THAT LAND SIZE IS NOT A PARAMETER FOR THE CREATION OF A REGION. INDEED PEOPLE HAVE STRUGGLED OVER THE YEARS TRAVELLING TEN HOURS FROM ONE END OF WESTERN REGION TO THEIR REGIONAL CAPITAL, AND YOU THINK PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A NEW REGION? IN ANY CASE THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA SETS OUT THE PARAMETERS FOR THE CREATION OF NEW REGIONS AND WESTERN NORTH MEETS THIS CRITERIA.
This is the Psychological Moment to sieze the day. If indeed "Governance is about making people HAPPY and that is what you want to do", then please make the people of the nation of former WESTERN TOGOLAND (now FREEDOMLAND or VOVOLI) "HAPPY" by letting them "GO" back to their own HOMELAND. For more than half a century now, the People of Western Togoland have been neglected by the former nation of the GOLD COAST. Enough of SERVITUDE in TRANQUILITY. We want SELP-GOVERNMENT with DANGER. "NOW". Make positive History by "Letting Us Go". We remember the Alliance Compliance Order. We are ready to GO HOME where we rightly belong. Create Nations Not Regions.
You don't need it because it's not affecting you.Do you know the distance from Takoradi to the Sefwi areas. In your eight years of reign what did you do for mother Ghana.I want to emphatically state that anytime NDC folks are attacking an initiative,it means they are afraid of that particular initiative. Wicked people by the way this dubious, corrupt full of gross hatred for Nana Addo Will never commend the npp for anything. This comment is out of envy,pain,bitterness and hatred.
If your assertion is anything to go by, then there was no need for the Upper East and West Regions to have been created from the former Upper Volta Region.
I agreed with Amaliba on this..... We do not need new regions we rather need good road network to connect the regions..... Secondly you do not use only land size to create regions... you must consider population as well. The regions the govt is considering dividing are less populated than Ashanti and greater Accra regions.