EC urged to split Kintampo Constituency

Mr Clinton Amo-Mensah, Vice Chairman of Kintampo Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to create two constituencies for Kintampo to enable parliamentarians in the area to manage their electorates successfully.

Mr Amo-Mensah told Ghana News Agency at Kintampo: "The area is so large that every parliamentarian finds it very difficult to reach the people to keep them abreast with government policies".

He said most of the roads in the area were also not in good condition and that it always took a great deal of time for the Member of Parliament to get in touch with all the people.

Kintampo, which is the central point of the country, has assumed cosmopolitan character and the creation of the constituencies would make the area very manageable for the MPs, the vice-chairman said.

He announced that Mr Yaw Effah-Baarfi, NDC MP for the area had purchased 30 bundles of roofing sheets worth about 18 million cedis from his share of the District Assemblies' Common Fund (DACF) to be supplied to selected communities for school projects.

Mr Effah-Baarfi is also supporting the construction of a block of three-classroom for Agyegyeemakunu Local Primary School with 20 million cedis, he said, adding that the community was offering communal labour towards the project.