SAEMA is now STMA

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Takoradi
March 25, 2008
The name of the Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly (SAEMA) has been changed to Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA).
This is as a result of the inauguration of the newly created Shama District Assembly, which hitherto was part of the SAEMA.
A press release signed by the Public Relations Officer of the STMA, Mr John Analatei Laste, said the general assembly at its last meeting on November 5, 2007, resolved to adopt the name Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, following the creation of the Shama District Assembly.
"The Assembly, wishes to inform the general public that while management is working hard to change the old name Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly (SAEMA) on its properties, stickers, tickets and other relevant documents such as tickets, stickers and documents bearing the name SAEMA will still be valid until new ones are produced to replace them", it said.
"To this end, the management of the STMA wishes to entreat all government departments and agencies, businesses, non-governmental organisations, schools and individuals using the former name of the metropolis SAEMA to amend their records to reflect the current name which is the STMA, " the statement added.
The Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly was established by legislative Instrument 1316 in 1994.
Before then, the assembly was known as the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, which included the Shama and Ahanta local councils.
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly shares boundaries to the East by the Shama District Assembly (SDA) at Inchaban just after the Sekondi School for the Deaf, to the west by the Ahanta West District Assembly, to the north by Mpohor Wassa East and to the south by the Gulf of Guinea.
The STMA has 44 electoral areas and four sub-metropolitan district councils which are coterminous with constituencies such a as Takoradi, Sekondi, Effia-Kwesimintsim and Essikado-Ketan.
The assembly is composed of 64 members made up of 44 elected, 15 government appointees, four members of Parliament, who are ex-official members and the metropolitan chief executive.