NEW DISTRICTS TO BE CREATED IN GHANA

Recently at a news conference, Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the country's minister for local Government and Rural Development anounced that the government was going to place before Parliament for consideration, the appropriate legislative instrument for new districts yet to be created.

Overall, the districts to be created is a total of 42. it would be created accross the country. The government is said to have allocated GHc 40million for the new districts. Also 5 new districts have already been created.
Mr Ampofo during a durbar of chiefs of the Greater Accra Region  in Dodowa is siaid to have stated that the creation is to be done after consultations with stakeholder.

The aim of the creation of the new districts is to ensure the effective management and development in the nation.

 The breakdown of the distircts in all the ten regions of Ghana are.
Greater Accra.............five
Eastern.....................five
 Brong Ahafo..............four
Volta.........................seven
Central Region........... two.

 Ashanti.....................four
Upper East.................three
Upper West................two
Western......................four
Northern region.............seven.

FROM A LEGAL VIEW
Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana names the Electoral Commission as the final authority in the demarcation of constituency boundaries. 

Article 47 of the Constitution of the 1992 Constitution provides the factors to be taken into account in the demarcation of constituency boundaries. Article 47 (3) of the constitution states that “The boundaries of each constituency shall be such that the number of inhabitants in the constituency is, as nearly as possible, equal to the population quota” to buttress his point. Article 47 (5) states that “The Electoral Commission shall review the division of Ghana into constituencies at intervals of not less than seven years, or within twelve months after the publication of the enumeration figures after the holding of a census of the population of Ghana, whichever is earlier, and may, as a result, alter the constituencies.”

Article 48 of the Constitution of the 1992 Constitution provides the procedure for the resolution of grievances, which may arise out of the demarcation of electoral boundaries.
 These some relevant provisions in our constitution to take a look at. The key is to look at it from an objective point of view