Gt Accra Regional Minister donates towards Homowo

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, has made a presentation of traditional items to the Sakumono We of the Ga State towards this year’s Homowo Festival.

The presentation comprised bags of maize for the kpokpoi traditional meal associated with the Homowo Festival and drinks for other cultural rites. The Sakumo We is one of the custodial pillars of Ga tradition and a key institution in the cultural practices of the people.

Interacting with the people after the presentation ceremony, Mr Titus-Glover urged the youth to maintain peace across the region. He denounced the activities of land guards, and said a joint force of police and the military was being put together by the Regional Security Council to deal with the surge in landguard issues in the region.

The work of the force, he said, would focus on chiefs who indulged in multiple sale of lands to their clients to stamp out such activities. The minister warned chiefs in some of the trouble spots to be guided "because the law will not spare anyone".

Mr Titus-Glover was speaking to the media on the sidelines of a presentation at the Sakumono We in the Greater Accra Region to support the Ga Dangme as they mark this year's Homowo and Asafotufiam festivals.

The Homowo Festival is celebrated by the Ga State and the chiefs and people of Ga-speaking areas of the Greater Accra Region, while the Asafotufiam Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and people of Ada.

The Homowo Festival of the Ga people is believed to have a lineage from the Jewish tribe and its ancestral tradition of the Jewish Passover feast.