The Assembly Member for the Apowa-Entsi Electoral Area has underscored the need for the Electoral Commission (EC) to create an additional two electoral areas in the Apowa community to bring the total number to four.
To this end, the Assembly Member, Nicholas Nyarko, has written to the office of the EC in the Agona Nkwanta District, capital of Ahanta West. The letter, which was titled ‘Request For the Creation of Additional Two Electoral Areas in Apowa’ was dated the April 28, and signed by the Assembly Member. The request letter reads, “I wish to bring to your notice and for consideration the important need for the creation of [an] additional two electoral areas in Apowa.”
The letter continued that over the last twenty-years, the population of Apowa had doubled because of the huge influx of people who had come to settle there. That is apart from the general increase in the population of the local residents. In consequence, Nicholas Nyarko pointed out that the Apowa Community was now large, and that two assembly members could not function efficiently and were now overwhelmed by the work that has to be done.
He, therefore, made proposal to the EC as consideration for the demarcation of the four new electoral areas as follows – from Asempa School and back of it through Ghacem Estate to Adjoa Road as the Apowa Electoral Area. From Adjoa Road through Nazareth to Warrikrom as the Antia Electoral Area.
From Adaworo through Lighthouse to TUC Estate to Warrikrom as the Manhene electoral area, and lastly, from Adaworo through Aworozo and Mantseapow to Highways and GDC as the Aworozo electoral area. The Assembly Member expressed the hope that the EC office would consider his request, and take the necessary measures to address it.