The Chiefs and people of Klefe in the Ho Municipality, have launched this year’s Yam festival with a lecture in Ho.
The festival, dubbed: “Peace, a necessary condition for development” is laced with series of activities including football gala, health screening, clean-up exercises, hiking adventure on Tokpo Mountain, inter-schools quiz competition and mentorship seminar for Basic Schools.
It is expected to attract more than one thousand local and foreign tourists, and promises to be unique, given that this is the first time the chiefs will sit-in-state.
The Paramount Chief of Klefe, Togbe Koku Dzaga, said the festival is to empower the people, but that can only be achieved through peace, hence, the choice of theme for the celebration. He urged the people to embrace peace because no meaningful development can take place without it.
Togbe Dzaga announced, that about three hundred and fourteen thousand Ghana Cedis, is expected to be raised during the celebration for the construction of classroom blocks and workshop for the Klefe Technical and Vocational Institute, among other projects.
A retired Military Officer, Major -General Henry Anyidoho, who gave a lecture, said peace is the bedrock of any progressive society, therefore it is important for the citizens to embrace it for accelerated socio-economic development.
He said it is time serious attention is given to what he called “internal wars and violence” such as hunger, diseases, selfishness and hatred which are derailing development.
The Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Letsa, assured the people of the government’s commitment to improving the road network. The two-month event will be climaxed with a grand durbar on September 28.
