Tema, July 9, GNA – The Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA) has presented food items and an undisclosed amount of money to the Nungua Traditional Council towards the celebration of the 2022 Kplejoo Festival.
The items included 20 boxes of bottled water, 20 crates each of canned malt and canned beer, one box each of whisky, local Schnapp, two bottles of foreign Schnapp, two big galloons of palm oil, three sacks of maize, and five boxes of fresh fish.
Ms. Anna Adukwei Addo, Tema West Municipal Chief Executive said they found it necessary to support the people of Nungua in the Kplejoo celebrations which heralds the Homowo festival.
The support is deemed a sign of respect to the stool as custodians of the land the Assembly operated from.
Ms. Addo advised the youth of the area not to indulge in social vices, but rather use the period to reflect on their future to ensure they transform into responsible leaders to benefit the country.
Nii Afotey Gbetse VI, Chief of Asoprotsonaa receiving the items on behalf of King Odaifo Welentsi III, Paramount Chief of Nungua, thanked the TWMA for the annual gesture saying that apart from them and the Krowor Municipal Assembly, Adenta, and Kpone-Katamanso Municipalities which form part of the traditional area in their municipalities had never shown them such gestures.
Nii Gbetse called on others both home and abroad to emulate the gesture of the TWMA to support the Traditional Council in diverse ways towards the development of the area, noting that some youths of the area were into drugs mostly due to the high rate of unemployment.
He said the situation was alarming as not less than five incidents of breaking into homes occur weekly as such miscreants looked for things to steal and sell to fund their drugs and excess alcohol intake.
He urged the unemployed youth to seek help from the Traditional Council or the TWMA to enable them to be enrolled in the numerous government initiatives to make a livelihood for themselves.
GNA