Yilo Krobo launches Kloyosikplemi festival
The Yilo Krobo Traditional Council in the Eastern Region has launched this year’s annual Kloyosikplemi festival of the traditional area at a ceremony in Somanya with a call on the citizens of the area to be part of the community’s development efforts.
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This year’s festival, which is to take place from November 14 to 24, is on the theme, “Healthy lifestyle to promote general development”.
Activities planned for the 10-day period include a homecoming for indigenes resident abroad, a church service to herald the festival, clean-up exercises, a programme dubbed ‘Meet Your Chiefs’, a quiz competition for senior high schools and a remembrance day ceremony.
Also billed are a health talk and screening exercise, cooking contest for women, cultural night, visit to the Yilo Krobo Hills (ancestral home) and dramatisation of the forcible ejection of the people from the mountain, a grand durbar, blood donation exercise, a state dance, a football gala and an inter-denominational thanksgiving church service.
According to the traditional council, there should be no funerals held in the traditional area during the period of the observance of the festival.
The acting President of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Council, Nene Tetteh Odonkor Tumeh, who launched the programme, urged Yilo Krobo citizens both home and abroad to consider the festival period as a time to unite to develop the area.
He said Yilo Krobo was developing fast in terms of the provision of infrastructure and roads and as such called on all citizens of the area to be part of the celebration.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Yilo Krobo, Mr Andrews Sodah, who is a member of the festival planning committee, pledged the assembly’s support for the success of the event.
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The Member of Parliament (MP) for Yilo Krobo, Mr Magnum Kofi Amoatey, said though the country was going through some difficult times, all was not lost as the government was in firm control of the situation.
He attributed the present state of the economy to the country’s trade imbalance because the country imported more than it exported.
Mr Amoatey asked citizens of the area who were writing anonymous letters against the siting of the projected Eastern Region University at Somanya to desist from such acts, adding. “If this university is taken from us then we are doomed.”
The Paramount Queenmother of the Yilo Krobo Traditional area, Naana Korlekuor Adjado III, advised the youth to be of good behaviour during the period of the festival and put up a good display of the culture of Yilo Krobo to the outside world.