Homowo Arts and Cultural Festival held at Junction Mall
The Chief of Otinor, an area in Nungua, Nii Afotey Botwe II, has urged Ghanaian youth to be innovative so that they may not be unduly dependent on the government for jobs.
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He said there were lots of opportunities that the youth could take advantage of to create jobs for themselves.
Nii Botwe was speaking at a Homowo Arts and Cultural Festival held at the Junction Mall, Nungua last Saturday.
Homowo
The Homowo Arts and Cultural Festival was organised by the Junction Shopping Mall with the objective of promoting African culture during the Homowo season.
The festival was marked by an arts exhibition, a durbar of chiefs, cultural display, cartoon shows, acrobatics and live band performances.
The programme drew a large crowd to the mall, including tourists from across the world, with some of them tasting ‘Kpopkoi’, the traditional food of the Ga people, for the first time.
Entrepreneurial
Nii Botwe urged the youth of the country to strive to become entrepreneurs, saying the quality of their setup business would enable them to create jobs.
“I believe there are lot of jobs around but because we are not paying attention to them, we are rather looking at government to create jobs and employ us,” he said.
In line with this, he urged banks to make the terms of their loan transaction flexible so that people, especially the youth, could receive loans to start their businesses.
He also encouraged already existing businesses and organisations to support the youth who came up with bright innovative ideas to help reduce the unemployment situation in the country.
“Let us put politics aside and think about Ghana first and help build the nation,” he added.
Nii Botwe said being a chief, it was his responsibility to see to it that children, particularly orphans in the Otinor community, were educated.
“We want every child in the area to have education, as such the traditional authority is putting in place measures to ensure that all children of school age are enrolled in school,” he said.
Junction Mall
The Marketing Manager of the Junction Shopping Mall, Mr Reginald Bulley, assured customers of the centre’s resolve to sell quality goods at affordable prices at all times.
He said the festival was held to promote African culture and to reward the mall’s customers for their loyalty.
“We chose to celebrate Homowo because we find ourselves in a Ga community and to promote Ghana’s rich culture. The Mall serves a variety of people from across the world to whom we decided to introduce the Ghanaian culture,” he added.