Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District

Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District
Former District
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Districts of Central Region
Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District Location of Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District within Central
Coordinates: 5°27′48.96″N0°56′12.48″W / 5.4636000°N 0.9368000°W / 5.4636000; -0.9368000
Country	Ghana
Region	Central
Capital	Ajumako
Government
• District Executive	Andrew Kojo Dodoo
Area
• Total	483 km2 (186 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	120,586 [1]
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
ISO 3166 code	GH-CP-AJ

Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which was created from the Breman-Ajumako-Enyan District Council from 1974 to 1978. The district assembly was located in the northeast part of Central Region and had Ajumako as its capital town.

Facts of interests

The University of Education, Winneba has a campus at Ajumako. The natives are Fante except the people of Breman Essiam who trace their lineage to Breman, near Kumasi. The main occupation of the people is farming with emerging markets at Breman Essiam and Ajumako. The current Member of parliament of the district is Cassiel Ato Forson. ^[2]

Infrastructure and Services

The district boasts of four trunk roads that meet at Ajumako but feeder roads are narrow and inaccessible during rainfall seasons which constrains market access and farm productivity. ^[3] They include gross post-harvest losses arising from shoddy storage and outdated processing facilities. All these communities are served by only one rural bank, the Enyan Denkyira Rural Bank having branches in, Ajumako, Bisease, Ochiso and Abaasa. In agriculture and livestock farming, extension service is facing resource financing challenge where the number of agents available is only 11 compared to the needed 32 and thereby giving a ratio of 1farmer to 1071 agent. ^[3]

Ajumako is served by a central hospital and five sub-district clinics (Abaasa, Bisease, Kwanyanko, Sonkwa, Nkwantanum, and Ajumako) and CHPS compounds. The prevalent health problems are malaria, typhoid, anemia among the pregnant women, poor family planning (uptake), and ineffective TB detection. Notable secondary and technical schools in education are; Bisease SHS, Enyan Denkyira SHS, Enyan Maim Community SHS, Ajumako SHS, Enyan Abaasa Technical Institute, Mando SHS and University of Education, Winneba (Ajumako campus). Later in December 2020, it launched a 30‑member Girls Education Network to increase enrolment, retention, performance, and transitions to higher education. ^[4]

List of settlements

Settlements of Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District
No.	Settlement	Population	Population year
1	Enyan Abaasa
2	Ajumako
3	Ajumako Kwanyako
4	Ajumako-Mando
5	Ajumako-Amia
6	Ajumako-Assasan
7	Ajumako-Besease
8	Ajumako-Baa
9	Enyan Denkyira
10	Enyan-Maim
11	Ajumako-Entumbil
12	Essiam
13	Etsi-Sonkwa
14	Ajumako-Kokoben
15	Kromamu
16	Okyeso
17	Ajumako-Ohwan
18	Breman Essiam
19	Ajumako-Techiman
20	Enyan Ankukrom
21	Ajumako Esikado

See also

• Abowinum

Sources

• "Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District". Statoids.
• District: Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District

References

1. Ghana: Administrative Division
2. Pulse. "Cassiel Ato Forson". www.pulse.com.gh. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
3. "MOFA - Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam". mofa.gov.gh. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
4. "Girls' education receives boost at Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam - MyJoyOnline". www.myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 14 July 2025.

5°27′48.96″N0°56′12.48″W / 5.4636000°N 0.9368000°W / 5.4636000; -0.9368000