At least 38 new Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have been created to deepen local governance in the country.
This brings the number of MMDAs in Ghana to 254 from the previous 216.
The Minister of Local Government Hajia Alima Mahama laid the Legislative Instrument on Thursday to back the creation.
She told journalists after laying the LI that: “We have some districts that the president has elevated into municipalities and those are not new but just elevation,”
She added: “Within the Metropolitan Assemblies some have grown big, so for instance, Ayawaso East has been divided into a municipality, same as Kwadaso and Oforikrom. We have not created any district that will necessitate the creation of constituencies. So we have some constituencies which have been turned into districts.”
“We have created from scratch 38 new districts. We have settled on the capitals. If there are agitations we’ll look at it,” the Minister assured.
