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Mampong is a town and the capital of the Mampong Municipal in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. [3] As of 2012, the town has a population of 42,037 people. [ 1 ] The town is home to the Mamponghene , Nana Osei Bonsu II .
Mampong Municipal Assembly is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana.Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Sekyere West District in 1988, which was created from the former Sekyere District Council.
Mampong is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. Mampong is located in Ashanti Region. [2] Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency since 2016. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won a majority of 20,472 votes [3] to become the MP.
However on 1 November 2007, the eastern part of the district was split off to create Sekyere Central District; while the remaining portion has since then been officially renamed as Mampong Municipal District, which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on that same year.
In jubilation, they uttered the Akan words "Yɛabedu ha yi de, yɛapɔn", meaning 'so far so good!' Constant use of that phrase evolved to become Mampong. The third probable reason for the name is the connection Mampong-Akuapem has with her Asante counterpart. Mampong became famous when Tetteh Quarshie planted in 1879 some cocoa seeds in the ...
The Ashanti Region is located in the middle belt of Ghana. It lies between longitudes 0.15W and 2.25W as well as latitudes 5.50N and 7.46N. The region shares boundaries with six of the sixteen political regions: the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo in the north, the Eastern Region in the east, the Central Region in the south, and the Western Region in the South west.
On August 27, 2020, the College of Technology Education, Kumasi and the College of Agriculture Education, Asante- Mampong were convert to formed the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development. The name honors Mr. Akenten Appiah-Menka a Ghanaian Lawyer, Politician and Businessman. [4] [5] [6]
This is a list of the 276 constituencies in Ghana. They will be contested in the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, from December 2024.There were 275 constituencies at the time of the 2020 Ghanaian general election. [1]