The Birim Central Municipal is one of the 26 administrative districts in the eastern region of Ghana Carved out of the former Birim Council in 1987 as part of the government’s decentralization programme the municipal shares boundaries with Birim North and Kwaebibirem (to the north) Adansi South and Assin North (West).
Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa and Agona West Municipal (South) and West Akim Municipal (East).Thus the Municipality especially, the capital Oda is linked up with many districts and this promote commercial activities among the district capitals and other nearby communities.
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Birim Central, said since 2009, the assembly has shown steady improvement in its revenue generation.
Member of Parliament for the Asene- Manso- Akroso constituency, Hon. Boateng Owusu Yaw has received a helping hand from A. K. Wood Company Limited, a leading ply-wood manufacturing company in country.
The Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive, Ophelia Koomson, has received massive infrastructural boost since the since the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government assumed power in 2009.
The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) Control Unit of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and the Akyem Oda Cocoa District has held a farmers rally to educate cocoa farmers on how to rid their farms of the disease.