We have the numbers to create 7 districts in Konkomba land – Chief of Bumbong

A cross-section of Konkomba chiefs and people living along the eastern corridor highway have called on government to consider carving some new districts for these areas.

They want government to treat it as a major concern affecting the people.

Addressing a press conference in Bumbong in the Yendi Municipality, the Chief of Bumbong, Obor Wumbie Dawuni said various petitions to government have not yielded any results.

“We will want to encourage the president his excellency nana addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to treat as a matter urgency and grant Bumbong in the Northern Region and Gbentiri in the North East districts to improve political representation and local governance,” Obor Wumbie Dawuni said.

He said they will not give up but would continue to seek audience with government until their demands are met.

“Our communities lay homogeneousely about 200 kilometers of the Eastern Corridor high way with a land mass and populations that could fit about seven district by our current laws yet we have no district capital cited in any of our communities” he said.

The Chief also raised concerns over the delay in the
completion of the Eastern Corridor roads which they believe would improve the socio economic development of the area.

“Issue number two we urge the government to hestine to complete the eastern corridor road to bring added impetus to the socio economic transformation of our communities.

“The simple reason that the momentum of the project which have been curb has withheld the enormous growth of our communities and the country as a whole and we this opportunity to remind our president the urgency with which is needed to turn our fortunes around,” Obor Wumbie Dawuni said.

Obor Wumbie Dawuni also debunked allegations that the Komba Clan had ceded from the mother Konkomba tribe assuring the general public any such unilateral declaration by anyone is false and should be treated with the contempt it deserve.

He said there is no division among the Konkombas adding that Kombas are Konkombas and they stand as one.