The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Gonjaland Youth Association Mr Mahama Haruna has disclosed that the Youth of Gonjaland will fight against the balkanization of Gonjaland.
According to him, the Youth of Gonjaland have been agitating for the creation of a second region out of Northern Region and would support the creation of a second region but not on the direction that has been announced.
Mr Haruna says the government of Kwame Nkrumah took away Gonjaland and added it to the Brong-Ahafo and today such lands are almost lost. He added that the regime of Flight Lt Jerry John Rawlings tried to carve the Bole area out of Gonja for the Upper West Region but was met with stiff resistance and that made it impossible to divide Gonjaland into two separate regions then.
Haruna: “We have a duty to protect our land so either we all fall into one region or remain in the original Northern Region” he emphasized.
Mr Mahama Haruna said this in reaction to President Nana Akufo-Addo’s statement that his government intends creating four new regions in addition to the existing 10 during his tenure of office and one of these regions will be an “Eastern Corridor Region” from the present Northern Region.
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