Bekwai Municipal Assembly is one of the forty-three districts in

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in the southern part of Ghana and is the third largest of Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of and making up 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of ...

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Amansie East District, which was created from the former Amansie District Council. Later, the western part of the district was split off by a decree of president

John Agyekum Kufuor John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the tenth president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. He was the fifth chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Atta Mills at t ...

on 12 November 2003 (effectively 18 February 2004) to create

Amansie Central District Amansie Central District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. It was formerly part of the larger Amansie East District, until the western part of the district was split off by a decree of president John Agyekum Kufuor on ...

. The remaining part was retained until early 2008 as Amansie East District. Then the eastern part of the district was split off to create

Bosome Freho District Bosome Freho District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Amansie East District in 2004; until the eastern part of the district was split off by a decree of president J ...

on 29 February 2008; while the remaining part was elevated to municipal district assembly status the same year and has since been renamed as Bekwai Municipal Assembly. The municipality is located in the southern part of Ashanti Region and has

Bekwai Bɛkwae (Bekwai) () is a town and the capital of the Bekwai Municipal, a municipality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

as its capital town.

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* before the split off of the

References

Sources

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GhanaDistricts.com
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19 New Districts Created
'', GhanaWeb, November 20, 2003. 2003 establishments in Ghana Districts of Ashanti Region {{AshantiRegion-geo-stub