Kenyasi No. 1 celebrates Akwasidae Tuntum
The Paramount Chief of Kenyasi No.1 in the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Osei Kofi Abiri, has called on chiefs within the traditional area to help protect the vegetation from bushfires, particularly during the dry season.
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According to him, the traditional area has recorded few cases of bushfires in the current dry season due to the anti-bushfire campaign launched in 2013 and this must be sustained as the dry season continues.
He was speaking at the celebration of ‘Akwasidae Tuntum’ (a festival), which is the first Akwasidae on the traditional calendar of the chiefs and people of Kenyasi No.1, to remember the death of their forefathers who toiled to establish the area.
The chiefs and people were clad in black to symbolise a state of mourning their ancestors.
The well-attended ceremony involved paying homage to the paramount chief while sitting in state.
Nana Abiri called for continuous unity and peace among the people of the traditional area, and also spoke against the organisation of expensive funerals at the expense of children’s education.
He called on the people to invest in their children’s education and desist from buying expensive funeral cloths which were of less importance to progress.
Nana Abiri expressed worry about the behaviour of some members of the community who hid behind human rights to disobey the orders of the traditional council, saying some members of the community fearlessly refused to respond to the traditional council’s summons because of the so-called human rights laws.
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He said it had not been helpful for people to hide behind human rights to disobey the laws of the traditional council, forgetting that every right went with responsibility.
Nana Abiri entreated the people of Kenyasi to rekindle their communal spirit to ensure rapid development in unity.
He advised the people to review the year 2013; do away with the bad things and focus on the good ones to attain success in 2014.