The Akatsi Administrative District is one of the eighteen (18) districts in the Volta Region. The District is located in the south-eastern part of the Volta Region. Total land area of about 906,445sq km. The district is located between latitude S 6° - 7° N and longitude 0 W - 1 E. It is bordered to the south by Keta Municipal, to the east by Ketu District, to the west by both North and South Tongu Districts and to the north by Ho Municipal and the Republic of Togo. The district capital is Akatsi.
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The district has a population of 93,477with agriculture mainly at the subsidence level of which about 95% of the population workforce is engaged in subsistence farming.
Akatsi is linked to Dzodze and Denu, Ziope, Sogakope, Anyako, Adidome and Keta by first class and second class roads. An international highway, the Accra-Aflao-Lome-Lagos highway runs through the district. Feeder roads criss-cross the district effectively linking the other towns and villages.
District Chief Executive for the Akatsi District, Peter Kwasi Nortsu-Kotoe has called on infrastructure developers in the district to seek approval by obtaining the relevant permits before going on with their projects.
AKATSI: 153 physically challenged receive GHs58,000 One hundred and fifty-three physically challenged persons in the Akatsi District in the Volta Region could not hide their excitement when they received various sums of money from the district assembly being their 2 percent share of the District Assembly Common Fund.
AKATSI: New complex for police service The Akatsi District Assembly is collaborating with the Ghana Police Service in the district to construct new office complex for the service.
