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 Dr Gabriel Odeh Afotey, the Secretary to the Planning Committee, unveiling the festival cloth.
Dr Gabriel Odeh Afotey, the Secretary to the Planning Committee, unveiling the festival cloth.

Manya Krobo launches Ngmayem Festival

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, has entreated the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture to educate kingmakers on the selection, endorsement and installation of chiefs, to avoid the petty squabbles that have bedevilled chieftaincy institutions in many traditional areas.

“We need to seriously educate our kingmakers as to how to go about the selection, endorsement and installation of our traditional rulers in our various traditional areas to avoid rampant chieftaincy litigations,” he said.

Mr Angmor made the appeal at the launch of this year’s Manya Krobo Ngmayem Festival of the people of the traditional area at Asesewa in the Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region.

“When the rightful person is selected or chosen from the right place or clan, it ends up in installing the right person and it brings about peace and development in such a traditional area. This must be enforced by our Chieftaincy Ministry to avoid the many litigations that crop up after installations,” Mr Angmor stressed.

Festival

This year’s festival  will be celebrated at Odumase Krobo, between October 24 and 30, on the theme: “The Role of Unity in Social Development.’’

The Manya Krobo Traditional Area comprises the Upper Manya Krobo District and Lower Manya Krobo Municipality, with the district and municipal capitals at Asesewa and Odumase Krobo respectively. 

Challenges

Mr Angmor noted that chieftaincy was full of problems, particularly in the area of inheritance, and attributed this to the absence of proper records to guide the kingmakers as to who should ascend the throne when it became vacant.

He said chieftaincy litigations had dragged on in courts for many years, thereby wasting time and resources and retarding development.

He urged the traditional authorities in Manya Krobo to ensure that petty squabbles in the clans, which could hinder progress in the area, were resolved amicably in the interest of peace and development.

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, who was the immediate past District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Manya Krobo, said Manya Krobos and Krobos in general cherished their customs and traditions and entreated all the divisional chiefs to continue to educate their subjects as they used to do on the need to uphold their cultural values.

Advice

 The Divisional Chief of the  Clan, Asafoatse Tetteyku Gbadaji, who represented the Paramount Chief (Konor) of the Manya Krobo Traditional Area, Nene Sakite II,urged the people to take part in the celebration and make it a success.

The Secretary to the Ngmayem Planning Committee, Dr Gabriel Odeh Afotey, who outlined the programme and unveiled the festival cloth and T-shirt, asked the divisional chiefs to advise their subjects, especially, the youth to desist from all acts of violence.

 

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