THE GREATER Accra Regional Coordinating Council has restricted the forthcoming annual Homowo festival of the people of Ga to designated areas.
The restriction was contained in a press statement signed by Fats Nartey, Chief Director of the Regional Coordinating Council on behalf of the Greater Accra Regional Minister.
The Regional minister has directed that the festival be restricted to only family homes where there are no disputes.
The sprinkling of “kpoikpoi” the directive went on should also be done in such family homes and not extended unto the streets at the trouble spots.
Persons the minister referred to as malcontents should not be allowed into any of the palaces or the stool rooms.
The Greater Accra Regional Police Commander has been requested to monitor the celebrations to ensure that peace according to the minister prevails in the region.
“The due process of law should be made to take its course to ensure that peace and harmony prevail during the celebration and any person who flouts the law should be dealt with in accordance with the dictates of the law,” the statement mentioned.
Continuing the minister said “government will not sit down for anybody to take the law into their own hands and that the security services have been put on full alert to deal with any malcontents according to law.”
The annual festival has been marred with what has been described by interference of people with vested interests in the Ga chieftaincy affair.
Last year the National Security Coordinator Gbevlo-Lartey put a stool house under lock and key in a fashion which drew opprobrium from many quarters. Some opinions described the action as a show of disrespect for the tradition of the Gas, a development made possible through the massive politicization of most issues in the country today.
In a related development, a spokesperson for the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah III has frowned at the use of the word “malcontents” in the statement.
The contents of the statement Nii Abbey went on is far from the truth given that it did not identify the trouble spots. The spirit of the statement according to him is disrespectful to the people of Ga. Such a statement he went on should have been preceded by a meeting with the relevant stakeholders.
By A.R. Gomda
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The restriction was contained in a press statement signed by Fats Nartey, Chief Director of the Regional Coordinating Council on behalf of the Greater Accra Regional Minister.
The Regional minister has directed that the festival be restricted to only family homes where there are no disputes.
The sprinkling of “kpoikpoi” the directive went on should also be done in such family homes and not extended unto the streets at the trouble spots.
Persons the minister referred to as malcontents should not be allowed into any of the palaces or the stool rooms.
The Greater Accra Regional Police Commander has been requested to monitor the celebrations to ensure that peace according to the minister prevails in the region.
“The due process of law should be made to take its course to ensure that peace and harmony prevail during the celebration and any person who flouts the law should be dealt with in accordance with the dictates of the law,” the statement mentioned.
Continuing the minister said “government will not sit down for anybody to take the law into their own hands and that the security services have been put on full alert to deal with any malcontents according to law.”
The annual festival has been marred with what has been described by interference of people with vested interests in the Ga chieftaincy affair.
Last year the National Security Coordinator Gbevlo-Lartey put a stool house under lock and key in a fashion which drew opprobrium from many quarters. Some opinions described the action as a show of disrespect for the tradition of the Gas, a development made possible through the massive politicization of most issues in the country today.
In a related development, a spokesperson for the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah III has frowned at the use of the word “malcontents” in the statement.
The contents of the statement Nii Abbey went on is far from the truth given that it did not identify the trouble spots. The spirit of the statement according to him is disrespectful to the people of Ga. Such a statement he went on should have been preceded by a meeting with the relevant stakeholders.
By A.R. Gomda
...Read More
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