Veep urges Techiman to sustain peace, unity
The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has urged the chiefs and people of Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region, to sustain their unity and peace in order to attract investors to explore the economic opportunities in the area.
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He also urged them to use the occasion of their annual Fofie Kesee Yam festival to review their activities in the past year to identify issues that undermined their development and find solutions to them, while sustaining those which facilitated the progress of the traditional area.
“There are many opportunities in Techiman which could attract investors,” Mr Amissah-Arthur told a durbar of chiefs and people of the Techiman Traditional Area at the weekend, to climax their annual Fofie Kesee Yam Festival.
Durbar
Displaying their rich regalia, a retinue of chiefs, with the Paramount Chief of the Techiman Traditional Area, Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw IV, in a palanquin, paraded through the principal streets of Techiman amid traditional drumming and dancing and converged on the durbar grounds at the Methodist School Park.
Also at the durbar were representatives of the Central Regional Queenmothers’ Association, paramount chiefs and representatives of the various regional houses of chiefs.
The festival, which coincided with the 10th anniversary cerebration of the enstoolment of Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw, was celebrated on the theme: “Strengthening the partnership between Techiman traditional authorities and all stakeholders to utilise opportunities for development.”
The Yam Festival is celebrated to give honour, praise and thanksgiving to the Almighty God and the ancestors for their bountiful blessing of high yam yield.
The crop is the major stable food in the traditional area.
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Touching on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Vice-President urged the public to maintain good sanitation practices and always ensure a clean environment.
Mr Amissah-Arthur stressed that the government was doing its best to avoid the spread of the EVD into the country.
For his part, Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw said Techiman was one of the fastest growing municipalities in the country and the most populous in the Brong Ahafo Region.
He said their forefathers bequeathed to them, as a people, a very warm heart that had made them friendly to all people.
He indicated that the quality of the people made Techiman one of the best places to invest in the country.
The Paramount Chief of the Offinso Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region, Nana Wiafe Akenten III, who represented the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, commended the chiefs and people in the area for supporting Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw in his successful 10-year reign and urged them to continue to support him in the coming years.