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• Togbi Sri III, the Awoamefia of Anlo state, welcomes President Mahama to the durbar grounds

Prez Mahama celebrates Hogbetsotso

The African Development Bank has provided $2.1 million for feasibility studies into the proposed Sogakope-Lome transboundary water project, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.

The headworks will be located at Sokakope, from where water will be supplied to Lome in Togo and some Ghanaian communities, including Akatsi, Denu, Agbozume, Aflao, Abor and Anyako.

Speaking at a durbar to climax this year's Hogbetsotso Festival in Anloga in the Volta Region on Saturday, President Mahama also talked about other ongoing projects in the region.

The festival is celebrated on the first Saturday in November. The colourful durbar brought together all the chiefs and elders of Anloland, the people, as well as tourists.

The President said 618 out of 836 housing units under the Keta sea defence resettlement housing scheme had been completed, while seven communities in the region were also benefitting from the community day SHS programme, saying in the next two weeks he would inaugurate the first one completed at Nkwanta.

In all, more than 200 school projects had been completed in the Volta Region, he added.

President Mahama said the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) had earmarked Keta to serve as a campus for the School of Pharmacy, adding that work on the Anloga, Dzameni and Abotoase fish landing sites would start in December this year.

In August this year, he said, the contract for the Blekusu coastal protection works was awarded, with work due for  completion in 2017.

 Peace

The President called for lasting peace in Anlo to ensure continued progress. In view of that, he welcomed the theme for the festival: "Anlo on the path of unity, peace, progress and development”.

"Hogbe has always been a cultural awakening and the various performances bring home the strength, unity and purposeful mind of the ancestors," he said.

The Awoamefia of the Anlo State, Torgbi Sri III, in his welcome address, called on all sons and daughters of the land to sustain what kept their forefathers together during their wanderings in the wilderness.

He asked all Anlos “not to allow history to judge us unkindly and future generations to mock us and loathe us for squandering our opportunity of the moment for reconciliation, peace, prosperity and development”.

He commended the government for the many projects it was initiating in the area.

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