Amansie Central District is located in the southern part of the Ashanti Region, the District is one of the twenty-seven (27) Administrative Districts in the Ashanti Region and one of the 28 newly created District Assemblies in the country, and was established by Legislative Instrument (LI.) 1774, 2004. It has about 206 settlements with Jacobu as the Administrative capital. The district can be found within Latitude 6000N and 6030N and Longitudes 1000W and 2000W. The total area of the district is about 710sqkm.
It shares common boundaries with Bekwai Municipal formerly Amansie East to the north east, Amansie West to the west, Obuasi Municipal Assembly to the south east, Adansi North to the east, Adansi South to the south and Upper Denkyira in the Central Region to the south.
In a bid to extend electricity to every part of the country especially to most deprived areas, 31 communities in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region will soon be connected to national grid to boost economic activities in the area.
A six-month-old baby, a boy aged about six and an unknown number of presons are feared dead in a head-on collision involving two vehicles at Pakyi No. 1 on the Kumasi-Obuasi highway in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
The Amansie Central District Assembly has constructed 132 lockable stores market complex for onward distribution to traders in the area as a measure to upgrading marketing activities in the district.
The Odotobiri Rural Bank (ORB) has provided an 80 KV power generator to the St. Peter’s Hospital at Jacobu to guarantee an uninterrupted power supply to the hospital.
A group of supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Amansie Central district has vowed to resist the “disingenuous plot” by local party leaders to hound the District Chief Executive (DCE), out of office.