Minister of State at the Presidency in-charge of Regional Re-organization, Hon. Dan Kwaku Botwe has cautioned the Director of Elections for the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Kwabena Bomfeh to be circumspect regarding his utterances in an attempt to criticize people.
According to him, even though Akufo-Addo’s government welcomes criticisms, the way the Director of Elections for CPP spoke about the demand for the creation of new regions is very bad as if the government is doing something against the constitution of Ghana.
The Council of State has, unanimously, informed the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that there is a substantial demand for the creation of new regions, after studying the petitions for the creation of new regions which were forwarded to the Council.
The Council has, therefore, advised President Akufo-Addo to appoint a Commission of Enquiry “to inquire into the need and to make recommendations on all the factors involved in the creation of the new regions” as petitioned by the Chiefs and people of Western, Northern, Brong Ahafo and Volta Regions.
But Kabila, as popularly known in politics on Okay FM, Wednesday, averred it is a misplaced priority for President Nana Akufo-Addo and his team to consider the creation of new regions as there are more pressing issues demanding attention of his [Akufo-Addo’] government.
He insisted the government should rather consider putting up structures and logistics at the various existing regions as it is will be appropriate to construct railways in the northern sector of the country so that transportation will be easy to link up with other regions.
He maintained that Akufo-Addo’s government does not understand its mandate and the reason Ghanaians voted for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with such a wide margin for change of government.
“This government must learn to appreciate that and concede that it is not everything they promised Ghanaians from opposition that can be implemented at all cost. Donald Trump is suffering because of this character of Nana Addo’s government. I don’t know what the rush is about? Setting up commission of enquiry is going to be at a cost to the people; what is the commission of enquiry going to work on that we already don’t know about the need for creating new regions?” he quizzed.
Reacting to Kabila's comment on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon. Dan Botwe wondered why the action of President Akufo-Addo which is in line with the 1992 constitution has been likened to the unconstitutional behaviour of US President Donald Trump, denying people from coming to his country.
“Why is he comparing Donald Trump to our government? what does he hope to achieve by using those words? We are not saying he should praise us; we all saw what they said about us during last year elections, but we sold our manifesto to Ghanaians and we promised to fulfil the demands of Ghanaians and we all know what happened, so we are not bothered about criticisms,” he stated.
“But for him to say ‘does this government understand what its mandate is?’; I will say yes, we understand our mandate. Our mandate is that we are fulfilling our manifesto and promises which Ghanaians based on to vote for us and so we understand our mandate,” he replied.
He stressed that Akufo-Addo’s mandate is also rooted in the Constitution of Ghana; thus the drafters of the 1992 Constitution saw the importance of this and devoted the whole chapter 2 of the constitution to talk about the territories of Ghana.
“It is stated in article 5 that there will be a time to alter the boundaries of a region and so it is the mandate of every political party which forms a government to look into it. The article 5 shows how to go about it if there is a need to do this. If it is not in the constitution then he can say we are rushing and we don’t know what we are doing,” he added.
He hinted that many traditional leaders as far back as 1982 have written letters, memoranda and petitions to the various governments to consider the creation of new regions.
“The Constitution allows the President to initiate the creation of new regions or act on petitions from the traditional leaders and forward it to Council of State . . . the President received petitions from 4 regions and it is something they have fought for many years. Is Kabila saying those traditional leaders don’t know what they are saying? I think we also must respect those leaders expressing their views,” he posited.
He indicated that there are a whole lot of researches backing the need for the creation of new regions; thus, nobody is rushing to create the new regions, asserting that Kabila should rather be humble enough to read the Constitution carefully to understand the action of the government.
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Your priorities may not be the same as others. To some the creation of the region is their priorities. Government will be at their doorstep and development will follow. Stop the tribal comments. You ate rather dividing Ghana ***barred word***
In Ghana the fastest way to get heard is to enter politics. That is why we hear utterances that does not make sense. Wrong people have become politicians.
Any serious minded person will never take Kabila serious.He has sold all his integrity for money from NDC.Honorable don't expect anything sensible and good from this CPP/NDC serial radio talker OK.Ignore him for he is complete lunatic.Treat him as a frausted guy and allow him to wallow in ignorance. Fuuuuullish
To the rat who calls itself Koliko.Ask your syphilitic mother whether she hasn't regretted spawning an ***barred word*** like you. I dare you to look into your mother's face and ask her that.Can't you communicate your incoherent messages on this platform without being such an ***barred word***-h0le?Kabilla cannot tell the government how to carry through its mandate.Sending development to every nook and cranny of the country is important and if all those lobotomised NDC supporters can't understand that they can go fry an egg.
OH JOHN DRAMA MAHAMA ONA POO. WICKED PEOPLE PARADING THEMSELVES AS GOOD PEOPLE, THAT MAN IN POWER NOW. LIARS LIARS MAKING SUFFER LIKE I SIN OR TAKE HIS WIFE SHAME UNTO YOU LIARS ESPECIALLY THE VICE DR. MM. NEXT TIME COME AGAIN. FOR WE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. PLEASE PAY PAY US FOR WE ARE WORKING, TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT MONTH WE ARE TIREEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
PAY PAY PAY US AND STOP THIS ***barred word*** GOING ON ALL OVER THE PLACE. HOW CAN WE WORK AND NOT PAID FOR THE PAST FIVE (5) MONTH? SOME STAFF ARE IN THE MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ESPECIALLY TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, SOME TEACHERS AND MANY OTHERS: ALL BECAUSE OF THIS ***barred word*** BIO-METRIC ISSUES . ***barred word*** ***barred word*** ***barred word*** WHY WHY WHY ***barred word*** BULLISH TO THE HIGHEST ORDER. FORGETTING THAT PEOPLE BROUGHT THEM TO POWER, ASK JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA? YOU SEE YOUR SMOOTHNESS LEVEL NEXT TIME AROUND. PERIOD
Why do people hate the truth. Is creation of regions a priority? It does not make sense at all. Workers and students are always picketing demanding to be posted or offered jobs, yet you are going to spend huge sums of dollars to create regions which may even create animosity about people who have lived peacefully all this while. If you create new regions, new structures need to be built, new vehicles need to be provided, talk about logistics and a whole lot of things which are now being done without problem. Why create problem when there is none. Job for the boys, that's it.
Kabila tell them,these akyeam tribal donkeys are burnt on dividing ghana.why not dividing ashianti and eastern regions?
there are two very big regions left why don't you divide those. I need a reply.
My honorable hardworking Mp you shouldn't have even replied this druuuunkard lunatic bribe taker corrupt guy.His pay masters are in opposition now.Can't u see how akpeteshie is destroying him.It has gotten to his brains. Everybody know that this guy has been vigorously defending the incompetent Mahama due to the money he took from him.This guy made some u turn that shocked everybody. He has no integrity in our body politics again.Have you noticed that all these garbages are spewed at Okay FM.Dr.Kwame Despite have to watch the okay FM well because all the fuuuulish comments are spewed at that FM station.Kabila ***barred word***.No wonder you are collapsing CPP gyimi