Bekwai Traditional Council acts to promote education
The Asante Bekwai Traditional Council has announced its decision to launch a fund to support the aggressive promotion of education in the area.
Advertisement
The council has over the past decade financially assisted more than 50 brilliant students from poor homes to pursue tertiary education and it says it wants to reach out to more beneficiaries.
The fund is one of the main highlights of activities lined up to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the installation of Nana Kaakari Appau II, the Paramount Chief.
Nana Opoku Ababio, the Chairman of the Anniversary Planning Committee, made this known at a press conference held at the Ayeboafo Stool Palace to unveil the programme of events for the week-long celebration.
These included massive tree planting in schools across the Bekwai municipality, clean-up exercises, a health walk, inter-schools quiz competition and a religious service.
Nana Kaakari Appau’s reign over the past one-and-a-half decades has been a watershed, marked by peace and socio-economic progress.
Nana Opoku Ababio paid tribute to the paramount chief for bringing to peaceful conclusion various chieftaincy and land disputes that were holding back development in some communities in the traditional area.
There is now a functional customary lands secretariat overseeing efficient land management in the paramountcy.
He also credited Nana Kaakari Appau with the construction of a multi-purpose community centre, a palace for the queen, the facelift of the Ayeboafo Stool Palace and rehabilitation of the Gyamfi Park, which now serves as a premier league centre.
“The people, therefore, have every cause to celebrate the success achieved over the period,” he added.
The theme for the event was “Awakening the spirit of creativity and innovation to foster communal development”.