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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If the Kibila guys understands the importance of local government, he would not be spewing those infantile words and arguments. He needs to grow up.No wonder his party does not even have a single seat in parliament.
Who is that KABILA guy? Hmmm Ghana everyone is BOSS. I better keep mute.
Dan Botwe accept crictism. You have not seen anything yet.
YOU NEVER WON THE ELECTION WITH YOUR MANIFESTOE. YOU WON IT WITH DECEPTION AND LIES.HOW MANY PEOPLE READS A PARTY'S MANIFESTOE. THERE IS NO NEED FOR NEW REGIONS, WE ARE ALREADY A DIVIDED NATION AND CREATING NEW REGIONS WILL FURTHER DIVIDE US.
Thank you Bomber for saying most of the things I wanted to say. One thing that is very annoying in this world is for someone to tell you that what matters to you is not important but theirs is important. At best you can say that the issue the other person is raising is not important TO YOU. However to generalize it by authoritatively saying it is not important sounds very insulting to the person raising the issue. By the emphatic statement of Kabila he means all the the knowledge and effort of the chiefs and researchers that has gone into the creation of the regions including the processes laid down by the drafters of the 1992 constitution to be followed to create the regions is misplaced and a waste of time. I think we all need to learn some basic rules in communication.
Peace fm has lost it's steem. They hail and pamper pseudo political intellectuals as authorities. Kabila knows next to nothing apart from shouting on programmes. Criticism does not mean you should denigrate everyone. This corrupt lu:na-tic and pretender Bomfe should behave and stop deceiving himself into thinking he understands politics than all Ghanaians. This is a guy who without integrity got influenced by the NDC hence his inability to reason upright. But for colleagues who finished the same university with him in the NPP making a lot of sense and impact on the political scene, I would have branded him a waste of a product of the university he attended. Get away with your only apaam foforo ***barred word*** as your only campaign strategy in the last election. Kabila's ***barred word*** political strategy ibi green ooo betrays his political ignorance and ***barred word*** . Get loss
@Eric: If you were in the shoes of those chiefs and researchers who had been consistently submitting proposals for the creation of these regions I am very sure you wouldn't be talking like this. Everybody's issue is pressing to him/her. You do not look at your situation alone to determine what issue is pressing. As I sit here the creation of a new region is not pressing to me but if I were to be in the shoes of those calling for the creation of the regions I might see the picture differently. For instance, due to various obstacle that are preventing the full implementation of our decentralization policy, people still have to travel long distances to Regional capitals to secure certain documents. If you live very far away from the regional capital in those large regions and you go through so much struggle and pain to secure a simple document in the same region, then you would come to accept that the creation of a region out of that vast land region is a pressing issue
As matter of fact, we should blame those that give their platform to persons like this boy called Kwabena Bonfeh aka Kabila to spews his idiotic words. What does this boy know about government to invite him to give his take on creation of new region. I hope the elders, chiefs and the people of the yet to be created regions have taken note of this boy's disrespect and harsh words on the party trying to bring government closer to them. This boy must not go free for his gibberish musings.
when you and your party flag bearer ivon Greentreet took monies from that lousy party ndc. ***barred word*** apeteshieman foolishman, if youare a manmention kennedy agyapong,s name you will hear sounds big ***barred word*** like you. as a member of cpp you were all the time on the nerves of npp during 2016 election , time will tell.
Excellent and befitting reply from my hardworking minister to that too knowing Kabila. Some people sit on radio and discuss everything from Archeology to Zoology making authoritative statements without any empirical data to support what they say as if they are the repository of all knowledge. Thumbs-up my minister.