The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), Mr Charles Abugri is advocating for Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region, to be made the national capital of the country.
He observes that the area is at the centre of the country aside its vast landmass and also accessible by other parts of the country.
Speaking at the World Tourism Day Commemorated on Tuesday September 27, 2016, he observed that the area is abound with enough facilities to be used as the country’s capital and therefore appealed to relevant authorities to take it into consideration.
“This is the centre of the country and very easy to reach. If ever we have a choice to relocate a national capital, this ought to be the national country”, he said.
His proposition concurs with a similar one by the Director General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Dr. Nii Moi Thompson who thinks the capital needs to be relocated.
A Former CPP Presidential Aspirant Prof Agyeman Badu Akosa is also among a tall list of persons who proposed that Ghana’s political and administrative capital be moved from Accra to an enclave between Gonjaland and the Brong Ahafo region.
“I have not been there but looking at the map of Ghana, it sits at the Geographical centre. It is my ‘peninsular’ of the Northern region surrounded by the Brong Ahafo region”, the Pathologist observed.
He said the enclave, which is bordered to the North and North East by the Volta Lake, has shores that can be beautified and not used for free ranged activities. It is surrounded by the South East and West by the Brong Ahafo region.
“The only way it is currently administered by the Northern region is by a trip from Tamale to Kintampo, Nkoranza, Ejura, Atebubu before one gets to this project of the East Gonja District. Let me reiterate that it will open up Ghana tremendously and reduce the tension that goes with overcrowded and ethnic tensions that have surfaced the present capitation from time to time”.
He believes that move will not only open up the country but also transfer development to other parts of Ghana.
“It would, in my view, open up this country for greater development; bring the country closer together; nowhere will be more than 400 km from the capital and will therefore have greater accessibility and bring the people together”, he argued.
Source: ultimatefmonline
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What will this do? Accras location isn't the problem; it's the management of the place. And out institutions don't work even when we say we have decentralized them. Can I register a business from Wa online? The answer is no. If things like this don't change, you can move the capital to everyone's bedroom it won't change zilch. And even if we decide to build a new capital like the way Nigeria did with Abuja, if we continue to be lax with our laws and regulations on building in unauthorized areas, on selling in the pavements, on traffic and many more things, we are just wasting our time. And anyway, I'd have thought this man was going to tell us how the previous wasteful and create/loot/share projects are going to be done better this time. Since this guy took charge I've only heard them proclaim one policy: national smock day. If you can't do better than that then get out!
No sense in this. Kintampo is the centre of Ghana so we should locate our capital there? The capital needs to be moved but not to Kintampo. Do you see where the capital of America is located?
With all seriousness this is the best thing to be done. Accra is in a total mess with filth everywhere but who will have the balls to eddect this change.
the f.u.ck???????????
Instead of giving update on how much money has been recoup from the SADA scandal, this fickle minded CEO wants kintampo to be capital of Ghana,- case of lost priorities, no brains in his head....This is how much money we have retained for SADA and this is what we have used it for instead of ***barred word*** suggestions that will not go anywhere.