President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that his promise for a new region to be carved out of the Western region is still high on the list of his administration’s policy priorities and will take place in 2018.
According to him, the constitutional and legal processes leading to the creation of Ghana’s 11th region will mature by 2018 when the next District Level elections will be held.
“I committed myself and my government to the creation of a new region out of this vast region which, for the time being, we are calling the Western-North. That commitment is high on the list of priorities of our government. By the time of the next district assembly elections in 2018, all the constitutional and legal procedures would have taken place and the referendum that the constitution calls for is going to take place together with that exercise,” he said.
This was highlighted during his Thank You tour of the Western Region after winning the 2016 Presidential elections.
Addressing the Western Regional House of Chiefs in Sekondi, Nana Akufo-Addo assured that his promise of siting the headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) in the region will also be fulfilled under his regime.
“The commitments that we have made are commitments that are going to be fulfilled. They were not platform or campaign talk. They were full commitments that we made… We are going to relocate the headquarters of GNPC to this region,” he stated.
