Gbawe

Gbawe (pol)
‘Name new municipality after Gbawe’
THE Chiefs and people of Gbawe have expressed their dissatisfaction with the intention to name the newly created municipality after Weija instead of Gbawe.
They said Weija had the advantage to be an area council and at the same time a constituency and that it was time Gbawe had a fair share of the national cake by having the new municipality named after it.
This was contained in press release singned by the Secretary of the Gbawe Katei Family, Mr Solomon Afutu Quartey, and issued in Accra on Thursday.The release said the population of Gbawe as of the year 2,000 stood at 28,950 while that of Weija was less than 10,000.
Besides, Gbawe is one of the best performing customary land secrtariats in the country under the pilot project of the Land Administration Project (LAP) of the Ministry of Mines, Lands and Forstry.
It said many areas went there to understudy their strategies in achieving the objectives of the project, which was a clear indication of how well the decentralisation exercise was gaining root in the locality.
“Gbawe area, moreover, has vast communites such as Mallam,New Gbawe, Awoshie, Anyaa, Kpabobo, Oblogo, Djanman, McCarthy Hill, Odorkor Tsuim, South Odorkor, Gbawe Otodjor, Gbawe Koo enyonaa, Akokorfoto, Gbawe Gon Kpataa, Gbawe Kpeehe (Kaneshie First Light) and many more,” the release said.
The release said Gbawe, as it were, had made tremendous contributions to the society which included the recent release of land for the construction of the proposed municipal assembly and a senior high school in the area, among others.
“The area also covers a wider acreage and had enough land for the construction of social amenities like schools, hospitals, markets, and road networks as compared to the Weija community, which has very limited available land for development, “ the statement said.
It added that one would realise that the Gbawe area was very large and judging from the look of things, it would be more appropriate if the new municipality was called the Gbawe Municipal Assembly instead of the proposed Weija Municipal Assembly.
They release said if their request was not granted, Gbawe and all communities that were under it would not be part of the newly proposed Weija municipality.