YOU ARE NOT TO ENFORCE PREDETERMINED AGENDA-TOGBE CAUTIONS COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY

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 President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede, has advised the Commission of Enquiry considering petitions for the creation of new regions to always endeavour to hold and present themselves as a fact-finding body and not as agents to enforce a predetermined agenda. 

In this regard, the processes involved in the national exercise should be fair to the people in whose interest the objective is being pursued.

 Togbe Afede, who is also the Agbogbomafia of the Asogli State in the Volta region, admonished also the Commission of Enquiry to be sensitive about its decision regarding who qualifies to vote in any possible Referendum and the determination of boundaries.

 He gave the advice in Kumasi at the opening of the 2nd Meeting of the National House of Chiefs this year. 



The Guests at the Meeting were the Commission of Enquiry into the Creation of new administrative regions led by its Chairman, Justice Stephen Brobbey. 

They were accompanied by the Minister for Regional Re-Organization and Development, Dan Botwe and his Deputy, Martin Agyei Korsar.

 The Minister and the Commission members were at the NHC’s meeting as part of their broader consultations particularly with chiefs who are custodians of lands and history of their respective traditional areas. 

The consultation is part of the concluding part of the work of the Commission whose six-month deadline for completion of its work inches closer. 

 Togbe Afede stated that, 'the overriding interest of we chiefs in the creation of any new region is the preservation of peace and unity and that the process should be devoid of tribalism and divisive tendencies.'
He urged chiefs to lend their support to the Commission in its work.

 The Minister for Regional Re-Organization and Development, Dan Botwe, reiterated the fact that the creation of the new regions would be purely demand-driven by citizens of the areas under consideration.

 According to him, many factors would be considered in the determination of whether or not to create entirely new regions, merge existing ones or alter boundaries.
'Government will not spend a dime on the campaign activities for the creation of the new regions', the Minister stressed.

 The Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry, Justice Brobbey, noted that the Commission has been open and also done enough consultations and that the meeting with the National House of Chiefs is meant to consider views of the members as it rounds up its work.







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