Prampram, July 31, GNA — The chiefs and people of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region have launched this year’s Homowo Festival with a call on the people to unite and work together for development.
The launch was jointly performed by the Prampram Traditional Council and the Ningo Prampram District Assembly (NiPDA) on the theme: “Unity, Key to Development,” and is scheduled to come off from August 12 to September 25, 2022.
Activities planned as part of the festival are clean-up exercises, concerts, family gatherings, cycling racing, marathon, traditional drumming and dancing, football competition, a sprinkling of Kpekple, Street Jams, fashion show, Miss Prampram Pageant, Traditional Health Walk, Health Screening among others.
Speaking at the launch, Mr AL-Latif Tetteh Amanor, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for NiPDA, said the traditional authority and the Assembly had done effective consultation with the national security to ensure that all the activities were held in a peaceful and secured environment.
He urged the residents to volunteer information to the security on any suspicious activities or characters whose movements were deemed dangerous before, during, and after the celebration to ensure peace and harmony.
“The Homowo festival celebration is back after a short break of COVID-19 and will be different because several programmes would be unveiled as part of the celebrations,” he stated.
He called on natives of Prampram to use the festival to build partnership and collaboration with the Assembly to enhance the area’s development.
Nene Tetteh Waka III, the Paramount Chief of Prampram Area, called on the citizens in the diaspora to come home and join the local citizens to celebrate this year’s Homowo festival to showcase the rich heritage of the area.
He said the citizens must bury all differences and do away with litigations, pettiness and all divisive tendencies that had retarded the progress of the area to ensure peaceful coexistence.
Nene Afutu Nartey III, the Chief of Afienya, who Chaired the launch ceremony, said culture was one of the strong pillars on which communities evolved and urged individuals to take advantage of the month-long festival to make a positive impact on the area.
Scores of residents of Prampram in an interview with the Ghana News Agency expressed their excitement about the traditional festivity for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to them, they expect this year’s Homowo to be the best of its kind as issues that normally affect the period had been resolved.
Present at the event were traditional leaders, religious leaders, Islamic leaders, government officials, Departmental Heads, politicians, corporate organisations, brand representatives, and sessions of the public.
GNA