Asokwa

{{Short description|Town in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana}}

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Asokwa is a town in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and the capital of the Asokwa Municipal District. The town is also home to the Asokwa Municipal Assembly.{{cite web |url=https://askma.gov.gh|title=Asokwa Municipal Assembly's Main website|access-date=2024-05-03}}

Town structure

The town in under the jurisdiction of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and is in the Asokwa constituency of the Ghana parliament.{{cite web|url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/03610.pdf |title=Elections 2004. Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections |access-date=2011-06-13 |pages=11 |publisher=Electoral Commission of Ghana |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522115353/http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/03610.pdf |archivedate=22 May 2011 |url-status=live }}

Municipal Assembly

The Asokwa Municipal Assembly (AskMA) was carved out of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) by a Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2294, 2018 by an Act of Parliament on the 21st day of December, 2017 under section 3 of the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 93..{{Cite web |title=Asokwa Municipal Assembly |url=http://www.askma.gov.gh/#/home |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=www.askma.gov.gh}}

References

Category:Populated places in Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly