Kpando Assembly Sets Up Boundary Committee

Kpando (Volta Region), 22 Oct.,

The Kpando District Assembly has set up an 11-member boundary disputes committee to address boundary demarcation problems with its sister districts. The committee which was inaugurated yesterday by Mr. Stephen Okrah, district budget analyst on behalf of Miss Akua Dansua, Kpando District Chief Executive, has three months to submit its report to the assembly. Under its terms of reference the committee is to get the Electoral Commission and the Ministry of Local Government to solve the controversial issue of Kpeve township which is a bone of contention between Kpando and Hohoe district assemblies. Miss Dansua said the committee will take up the issue of a petition sent to the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) by certain chiefs in the Hohoe District on the actual boundaries between Hohoe and Kpando Districts. The issue of "islands" in the Volta lake which before the construction of the Volta river belonged to the Kpando district but became part of the Eastern region after the creation of the Volta lake will also be visited. Mr. M.M. Amevenu, the chairman, said the committee will work hard to justify the confidence reposed in it and ensure that "the district is "neatly" demarcated to lessen tension and administrative inconvenience created by the boundary problems.