Consider carving new districts in Northern Ghana to improve political representation – Wumbie Dawuni urges govt

Konkomba chiefs along the eastern corridor highway have urged the government to consider carving new districts for the areas and to treat it as a major concern affecting the people to improve political representation and local governance.

They said various petitions to government had not yielded any results and encouraged the government to treat the issue as a matter of urgency to accelerate the growth and development of the areas.

“We will want to encourage the President, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to treat as a matter urgency and grant Bumbong in the Northern Region and Gbentiri in the North East district to improve political representation and local governance and we will not give up but will continue to seek audience with government until our demands are met,” they reiterated.

Addressing a press conference in Bumbong in the Yendi Municipality on behalf of the chiefs, Obor Wumbie Dawuni, the Chief of Bumbong, said the communities lay homogeneously about 200 kilometers of the eastern corridor high way with a land mass and population that could fit seven districts by current laws yet they had no district capital cited in any of the communities.

He also raised concerns over the delay in the completion of the eastern corridor roads which they believe would improve the socioeconomic development of the area to bring added impetus to the transformation of communities.

“The simple reason that the momentum of the project which have been curbed has withheld the enormous growth and development of our communities and the country as a whole and we remind our president of the urgency needed to turn our fortunes around,” Obor Dawuni stressed.

He debunked an allegation that the Komba Clan had ceded from the mother Konkomba tribe and assured of any such unilateral declaration by anyone was false and should be treated with the contempt it deserved, adding that “there is no division among the Konkombas because Kombas are Konkombas and they still stand as one”. –myjoyonline.com