Ga Mantse visits ancestral graves to climax Homowo King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, Ga Mantse, has visited the gravesites of passed Kings at Mantseman, in the Tesano and Apenkwa enclave to climax the 2022 Ga Mashie Homowo celebration. The visit, an annual ceremony at the royal mausoleum, was in remembrance…
It is not important at the moment to relocate Ghana’s national capital from Accra, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Dan Botwe has said. In his view, enough measures have been put in place to make Accra work efficiently as the national capital, thus, it will be too expensive to move the capital now.
“I do not think the relocation of the capital city is important now because it costs so much,” Mr Botwe told journalists at the Regional Ministers and Chief Directors Conference. In his estimation, “now that we have expanded services with leadership and well-trained capacity-building, we should be able to deliver”.
Accra was made capital by mistake; let’s move it to Yeji – Nana Akuoko Sarpong
Source: UGC
Accra became the administrative capital of Ghana in 1877 when the British colonial authority transferred the seat of government from Cape Coast.
It was declared a city on 29 June 1961 by Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Speaking to Accra-based
Citi FM, Nana Akuoko Sarpong called for the relocation of the country’s administrative capital from Accra.
He said the capital should be moved to areas near Kintampo.
“We can be thinking of relocating the administrative capital somewhere near Kintampo while Accra remains the commercial capital,” he stated.
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