Dominic Ayine worried over unavailability of CI on new regions

Former Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine has expressed concerns about the unavailability of copies of the Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 109 on the referendum for new regions to Members of Parliament.
Mr. Ayine also indicated that, the unavailability of the C.I is making it difficult for Members of Parliament to make up their minds as to whether to support the decision to create new regions or not.

“I think it is a big source of concern. The reason being that this is a very important constitutional instrument. An instrument that is aimed at the creation of new regions for the country. Members up till now still do not have copies of the instrument.
“The question is when members do not have the full complement of information, how can they make up their minds? I think that as a matter of urgency, leadership must make the instrument available to all members of Parliament,” Mr. Ayine said.
Parliament’s Special Budget Committee also raised concerns with the level of publicity associated with the upcoming referendum on the creation of new regions.
The concern came up at a crucial meeting between the Committee and the Electoral Commission.
The Deputy Ranking Member of the Committee, Yaw Frimpong Addo who made this known in a Citi News interview was, however, quick to add that the EC is putting resources together to embark on intensive publicity ahead of the referendum.
“We had a couple of concerns with the publicity, and they assured us that they are marshaling all resources to embark on publicity for ten days…Once they have assured us, we should take them by their word and move on.”
The referendum for the carving out of the regions is slated for the 27th of December.

Processes are currently underway for the creation of six additional regions in the country following a recommendation by a commission of inquiry.
The commission submitted its report to the president a few months ago.
The 19-member Commission after holding nationwide consultations urged the government to create the administrative regions to be known as Oti, Ahafo, Brong East, Western North, North East, and Savanna.

A referendum is expected to be held in the selected areas before the new regions are created.
But some stakeholders in some of the areas especially from parts of the Volta Region are opposed to the move.
Government and the Electoral Commission have already been slapped with two different suits over the issue.