President Nana Akufo-Addo has named Nalerigu as the capital town for the newly created North East region after a successful referendum on December 27, 2018.
“The hardworking minister for the Northern region, Salifu Saheed will be a caretaker until a substantive minister is appointed with Nalerigu as the capital,” he said.
The President announced this when he addressed a delegation from the newly-created North East Region at the Jubilee House Tuesday afternoon at a ceremony to issue the Constitution Instrument (CI) to give effect to the new region.
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President Akufo-Addo urged the people of the North East Region to work hard towards the development of the new region.
“I want to assure you that government’s projects and structure will be equally and equitably distributed across the region. I am confident that with dedication and hard work, every life in the region will be touched and the desire for growth and development which was the underlying factor for the creation of this new region will be met,” the president said.
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Nalerigu is a town located in the North-East corner of Ghana with the Mamprusis as the main people who speak Mampruli in the area.
The town of Nalerigu in the North East Region is near the borders of Burkina Faso (to the north) and Togo (to the east.