Afigya-Kwabre district with its capital Kodie forms part of the new districts and municipalities created in the year 2007 and were inaugurated at their various locations simultanously on the 29th of February 2008.
The President by an Executive Instrument (E.I) created 27 new Districts, 4 Municipalities, Upgraded 26 existing Districts and 2 existing Municipalities.
All the inaugurated and confirmed MMDAs established are operational with immediate effect hence bringing the total number of MMDAs to 170.
These new creations arose as a result of the large size of some of the then 138 MMDAs which was not one way or the other allowing the government to fully implement its policies of local governance to the benefit of the entire citizenary.
www.ghanadistricts.com in conjunction with this assembly, is in the process of collecting relevant data concerning its location and size; topography and drainage; climate and vegetation; geology and soil; social infrastructure; economy and all that one needs to know about it.
Mr Kwaku Kaakyire Oppong-Kyekyeku, the Afigya Kwabre District Chief Executive (DCE), has appealed to all Ghanaians not to allow political differences to undermine the nation’s progress and development.
The only referral health centre in the Afigya Kwabre District of Ashanti Region is crying for government intervention as land allocated for infrastructural expansion faces persistent encroachment.
The Afigya Kwabre District Assembly has lunch this year’s “Efie Ne fie” homecoming festival which is celebrated by the people of Afigya Kwabre in the Ashanti region to plan on how best to develop the area.
The Member of Parliament for Kwabre West constituency in the Ashanti region, Emmanuel Owusu Ansah, has been confirmed dead at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.