Ahafo Region
administrative region in Ghana
The Ahafo Region is a new region in Ghana, created on 27 December 2018, with Goaso as its capital. The region has administrative and governmental legislature like all the ten already existing regions in Ghana. The region was carved out of the south-eastern part of the Brong Ahafo Region and was in fulfilment of a campaign promise made by the New Patriotic Party. Prior to the 2016 Ghanaian general election, the then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo declared that when elected, he would explore the possibility of creating new regions out of some of the existing regions in Ghana in order to bring government closer to citizens.
The execution of plans for the creation of the regions was assigned to the newly created Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development which is under the leadership of Hon. Dan Botwe, the Government of Ghana minister charged with the responsibility of supervising the creation of new regions in Ghana. In March 2017, the ministry sent the blueprint for the creation of the region, along with others, to the Council of State. The council met over 36 times from the time of submission to August 2017. The final stage for the creation of the region was decided through a referendum by the people within the catchment of the new region on 27 December 2018.
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The political administration of the region is through the local government system.
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