Achiase District
Achiase District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, Ghana.[1] It was formerly part of the then-larger and original Birim South District until 2008, when it was split off to become a new Birim South District; thus the remaining original part was renamed as Birim Central Municipal District. Later in 2018, part of the district had split off to become Achiase District. The district assembly is located in the southwest part of Eastern Region and has Achiase as its capital town.
Other towns in the district include Aperade, Akenkasu, Osorase, Akim Anyinam and Anamase among others. Achiase District is relatively a new district requiring infrastructural development across all sectors. Akim Achiase is the main commercial Centre with two major market days in a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. On such days, the district capital gets busy with heavy trading primarily from traders across towns and villages in the district and also from nearby districts like Birim South, Birim Central and Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa. The district currently has two senior high schools namely Achiase Senior High and Aperade Senior High. The district also has railway coverage from Achiase through to Aperade but currently require investment as the lines have been idle for over a decade. The Ghana Armed Forces also has a Jungle Warfare Training School in Achiase called Seth Anthony Barracks as it was named after Major Seth Anthony, the first black African Soldier to become an officer in the British Army.
References
- "Government to inaugurate six new districts today". Prime News Ghana. 19 February 2019.