The youth at Akyem Tafo in the Eastern Region have embarked on a demonstration to protest government's decision to relocate their capital from Tafo to Kukurantumi.
The Youth Movement leadership told this paper in an interview after the demonstration that New Tafo is the business hub within the municipality and contributes significant revenue to the Assembly adding that the biggest market within the municipal assembly is situated in New Tafo Akim and believed changing the capital is not the best option.
The demonstrators expressed resentments over the government decision to relocate the capital.
The Tafo youth petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene against plans to site the capital at Kukurantumi which is situated on the other side of the main Koforidua-Bunso road.
The youth also argued that making Tafo the capital will be a befitting way to honour the memory of late Member of Parliament (MP) Joseph Boakye Danquah.
They also complained that it would be inconvenient; especially their people would have to travel about kilometres to the new capital.
"We feel that, the government's development policy of promoting balanced development would be enhanced if Tafo is maintained as the new district capital” they concluded.
Source: New Crusading Guide
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TWO OF THE REASONS TAFO SHOULD GET THE CAPITAL INSTEAD OF KUKURANTUMI IS AS FOLLOWS: 1. IT WILL BE INCONVENIENT FOR THE PEOPLE OF TAFO TO TRAVEL ABOUT 4 KILOMETERS TO KUKURANTUMI TO RUN ERRANDS. 2.IT DOESN'T FIT INTO THE GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY OF BALANCED DEVELOPMENT. I SEE THIS ARGUMENTS AS UNINTELLIGENT, GREEDY, ARROGANCE AND BASELESS. TAFO IS BOASTING OF HAVING DEVELOPMENTS KUKURANTUMI HASN'T GOT SO WHERE IS THE POLICY OF BALANCED DEVELOPMENT. KUKURANTUMI PEOPLE TRAVEL OR WALK TO TAFO EVERYDAY TO HOSPITAL, BANK MARKET ETC. IF KUKURANTUMI PEOPLE CAN TRAVEL OR WALK TO TAFO, TAFO CAN DO SAME. IT IS GREEDY ON THEOR PART TO HAVE EVERYTHING WITHOUT THINKING OF OTHERS. THE CAPITAL IS FOR KUKURANTUMI AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE IT, PERIOD
I don't really Know who masterminded this agenda and why they should think of such act. New Tafo had been the central business center for all the communities within the district ever since. It already has all the needed facilities that makes a district. Talking of Hospitals, Schools, Railway Station, Electricity Substation, Post Office, Office, Police station, A very Big Market, Lorry Terminal, West Africa Cocoa Research Institute now Cocoa Research Institute(CRIG) to mention a few. These are some of the things to consider in citing a district. I don't understand why they know all these things yet want to take the district away from there. The authorities must sit up and do the right thing and stop that personal interest agenda.