Creation of two districts in Nadowli District causing confusion in UWR
Due to conflicting reports, the people of the Upper West Region are confounded over the number of districts that has been carved out of the Nadowli District.
The Government initially announced the creation of 42 new districts for the country saying a new one would be created for the Kaleo Traditional Area in the Nadowli West Constituency of the Nadowli District with Kaleo as its capital.
However, a “Ghanaians Times” report has said the capital of the new district is rather Issa in the Nadowli East Constituency instead of the original location at Kaleo as reported earlier.
These two conflicting statements is creating unease amongst the population of the district as the boundaries and actual location of the new district is still unclear.
Some concerned citizens from the region are confused as to how two new districts could be carved out of the Nadowli District and are calling on the Local Government Minister to come clear on the matter.
A statement signed by the Sankana – Naa Wigbert Dogole, Acting President of the Kaleo Traditional Council in Wa, said the newly created Kaleo District was coterminous with Kaleo Traditional Area and prior to the creation of the Nadowli District 1987, both the Kaleo Traditional Area and Nadowli applied for separate districts but one district was created for them.
Naa Dogole said a compromise deal was reached and Nadowli was made the district capital with Kaleo providing the district secretary to facilitate the integration of the people of the district.
He said since then, the Kaleo Traditional Area had been petitioning for a separate district status.
Naa Dogole said the newly created district has the human resources and infrastructure such as health facilities, educational institutions and good road network to stand on its own as a district.
He said the people in the district are a homogeneous and a contiguously netted group and all these factors could facilitate a quicker pace of development for the district.
Naa Dogole said the district was made up of 71 communities with three of the most populous areas of the region to be found within the newly created Kaleo District namely: Kaleo with a population of 3037, Naro, 2404 and Takpo, 2388.
Of the twenty most populous communities in the current Nadowli District, 11 of them are also within the newly created Kaleo District
Naa Dogole said if the Kaleo Traditional Area met the criteria for the creation of a new district, the people would forever remain thankful to President John Atta Mills’ government for granting the request of the chiefs and people of the area.
He said “if two brothers make requests from their old father and one’s request is granted by the wisdom of the father, the only option for the aggrieved brother is to make a good case for his own and not to compel the old father to confiscate for him the one granted to the other brother”.
Source: GNA
I do not mean that Kaleo do not deserve to stand on it own as a district,but the nicked truth is that, it is not logic to have two district in one constituency. or is it that the west is twice larger than the EAST. i do not think so. On the other side of the coin,Kaleo is just closer to Wa municipal and as well as Nadowli(where the district capital is) so it will not sound well if people will have to move as far as the east to Kaleo as their new district . so my projections are that, if Kaleo deserve a district, then the Nadowli east constituency also deserve it . it wll be total denial of our legitimate rights on the part of the incumbent government if the EAST are not considered. As to where the district capital will be situated, for me, whether ISSAH/ DAFFIAMA / BUSSIE is not my problem, but to resolve this issue amicably, my concern is that ,the various three communities elders should come into consensus and make FIAN the capital since it is in the centre of the constituency . If this not done, we may lose this opportunity in a broad day light.