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Contrary to reports of threatened protests against the inauguration of the new North Tongu District in the Volta Region, the occasion turned out to be a peaceful and joyous one. The North Tongu District was formerly part of the Central Tongu District in Adidome. The new district is now headquartered in Battor and was part of the 46 newly created districts inaugurated across the country last week Speaking in an interview after the inauguration, the District Chief Executive of North Tongu, Alhaji Bubey Dzinadu, said it was time to move ahead as one Tongu that had no boundary. �What people don�t know is that Tongu under Dr Nkrumah had three districts. The districts were only collapsed under Dr Busia�s regime into one. So if today we have all our three districts back, it is only natural,� he said. �The towns that headed those three districts under Dr Nkrumah�s regime are the same towns that are heading them now so there is no need for a protest. What is left is for us to work hard so that we can get a fourth district,� he said. The Deputy Minister of Information and National Democratic Congress� (NDC) parliamentary candidate of North Tongu, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said he was going to work hard to get the people of Mepe who did not vote in the district assembly elections to do so. �It is important that they vote so that they can get representatives on the assembly so as to ensure that development is evenly spread in the district,� he said. The Queen mother of the Mafi Traditional Area, Mamaga Amesimenu, asked the people of Battor, who are the landlords of the administrative headquarters of the newly created district, to make land available for infrastructural development of the area. Dr Bernard Kwesi Glover, who represented the President at the ceremony, donated two garbage-collection vehicles to the district.