Government's plan to relocate some agencies to other regions apt - Former MP for Anyaa-Sowutuom
Former Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom, Dickson Adomako Kissi
The former Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom, Dickson Adomako Kissi, has backed President John Dramani Mahama’s plan to extend government ministerial installations beyond the Greater Accra Region into the Eastern and Volta Regions.
The plan to move selected governmental agencies to other regions aims to mitigate Accra’s overpopulation, flooding, and traffic congestion by decentralising some governmental offices.
Speaking on GH One on May 19, 2025, Adomako Kissi supported the president’s plan, stating that it would not only reduce congestion in the Greater Accra Region but also serve as a catalyst for development in other parts of the country.
"I think this move by the president is important because it will curb the mass migration of young professionals to urban cities in search of jobs. Only, I was thinking it would be in one place, like relocating some government facilities to an area beyond Nsawam and Suhum but I learned that it would be in three different regions. In all, I think its laudable and the same strategy could be replicated in other regions as well," he said.
“As Chairman Wontumi would put it ‘we are bringing Dubai to Ghana. So, if we are bringing Dubai to Ghana, there will be no need to move from Ghana to Dubai’. Instead of moving from rural areas to urban cities, this initiative would bring urban opportunities to less developed regions,” he added.
Adomako Kissi’s reaction follows President John Mahama’s decision to move some government offices to neighbouring regions to ease congestion in the Greater Accra Region.
"I believe that this city will be located somewhere on the Accra plains from Bundasi, straddling across Greater Accra, Eastern Region and Volta regions. The city will straddle three regions," President Mahama stated in his remarks at a grand durbar of the Chiefs and People of the Greater Accra Region at Dodowa, during the NDC’s Thank You Tour on May 16, 2025.
The "Thank You Tour" was to enable the President to express gratitude to the Chiefs and People of the Greater Accra Region and Ghanaians for their massive support for him and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 general election.
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