The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central in the Upper East Region, Mahama Ayariga has assured that, together with other parliamentary candidates on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), they will take every step to achieve the creation of a new political and administrative region named Kusaug Region in the Bawku area
He said the boundaries of the new proposed region to be carved out of the Upper East Region will cover the six districts when the NDC wins the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The new region to be created in the Bawku area, and to be named Kusaug Region, will encompass the Zebilla, Binduri, Garu, Tempane, Pusiga and Bawku District and Municipal Assembly.
“The creation of the region will therefore be our key preoccupation upon NDC winning the next election,” Mr Ayariga stated in a letter dated July 1, 2024, addressed to the Zugran of the Kusaug Traditional area.
The people of the area had made the proposal and Mr Ayariga was responding with the assurance.
Already, former President John Dramani Mahama who started his campaign tour of the Upper East Region on Saturday (August 3, 2024), speaking to the Bawku Naba at his palace said he was aware of the proposal and a subsequent letter Mr Ayariga had sent to the Speaker of Parliament about the proposal
Mr. Mahama said “it is possible” to create the proposed Kusaug region and that considering the requirements for the creation of a new region, such as land size and population, the population in the Bawku area in the Upper East Region and that of the land size far exceed that of the North East Region.
On the land area, he said the Bawku area is either equivalent to or exceeds that of the North East Region, “so it is highly possible and I think that once the processes are set in motion, any commission of inquiry that is established will look favorably on this.
He said the purpose of creating a region is to create business.
Mahama Ayariga’s letter
In the MP for Bawku Central’s assurance letter to the Zugu Ran the Bawku Naba of the Kasaug Traditional Area, he stated the “area has a diverse population of ethnicities including Moshis, Bimobas, Bisas, Yangas, Fulanis, Hausas, Mamprusis and Kusasis and a huge diaspora, both in Ghana and abroad, that can diligently work to ensure a viable region.”
“It is even more so with the recent significant discoveries of gold in the area. Until the outbreak of the six decades-long unwarranted conflict, the area was the most economically vibrant in the whole of the north of Ghana.”
Story by Patrick Asford Boadu
