The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Area, with Sekondi as the administrative capital, occupies the south-eastern part of Western Region. It shares boundaries with Ahanta West, Shama and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipal. It is located on the coast, about 200km west of Accra.
This makes it the smallest, but easily the most highly developed of the 13 districts of the Western Region. Indeed, it is the third largest metropolis in the whole of Ghana. Close to Takoradi Polytechnic, the Konsaworado flows towards the Buthia lagoon, creating an extensive, beautiful marshland. The Essei lagoon lies between Ekuase and Takoradi.
Mr Paul Victor Obeng, Senior Presidential Advisor, has underscored the need for effective spatial planning for the six coastal districts along the Jubilee Oil Field in the Western Region.
Mr Ebenezer Teye Addo, Western Regional Minister, has called on stakeholders to develop workable proposals for an effective policy to sustain the National School Feeding Programme.
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) would soon start demolishing illegal structures on a 50-acre land earmarked for a transit terminal at Mpintsin.
Five assemblies in the Western Region are to benefit from the land use component of the second phase of the Land Use, Planning and Management Project (LUPMP-2), Mr Mohammed Alhassan, a Senior Town Planning Officer, said yesterday.
The Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital is in dire need of medical equipment to enable the hospital to function effectively as the only referral hospital serving the Western Region.
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