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7th April, 2010
Implement An Inter - Regional Highway System - Togbe Afede
The Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV, has urged the government to plan and implement an inter regional highway system that will link the regional and district capitals within 10 years.
He explained that most of the nation’s tourist attractions are not accessible and that there is the need to the government to assist the private sector to put in place other facilities required to develop our tourism potentials.
Togbe Afede made the call when he joined the chiefs and people of Likpe Traditional Area to celebrate their Lekoryi (Unity) festival at Likpe-Mate in the Hohoe Municipality.
It was on the theme “tourism for sustainable development and wealth creation.
Togbe Afede who is the President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs noted that a similar programme to ensure the availability and uninterrupted supply of electricity throughout the country would help the standard of development.
“I believe it will make sense to leverage our natural resource and ornaments to provide the funds for these infrastructural programmes now, rather than from piecemeal budgetary allocations”, he said.
The Agbogbomefia stressed on the need for an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) tourism programme, alongside the domestic tourism programme to attract visitors from the sub region since “ we cannot have more visitors from Europe or America of Asia than we can possibly have from a among our West African neighbours”.
Togbe Afede pointed out that chiefs must have an important role to play in packaging and promoting the nations tourism to the outside world and patronise them if they have to be of interest to outsiders.
In recognition of the importance of tourism to the development of the Volta region, the Agbogmefia disclosed that under the Volta Region Economic Development plan, a hospitality skills training school is envisaged as one of the flagship projects aimed at equipping the people with skill relevant to the hospitality sector.
Nana Soglo Alloh IV Otekple of Likpe Traditional Area lamented that due to unforeseen circumstances and protracted chieftaincy disputes the festival which serves as a unifying force in the area could not be celebrated frequently towards peace, unity ands development.
He observed that the chieftaincy institution as a rallying point for maintaining for honouring the past and assurance of a bright future.
However, Nana Alloh cautioned” that the way partisan politics is creeping gently into the noble institution pose a formidable threat to peace and national development and that there is the need for to remind chiefs not to encourage partisan politics so as to preserve our own dignity and that of the dignity of the institution,”
On the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals he said plans are far advanced to provide electricity to all educational institutions in the communities as a first step of getting them ready for Information, Communication and Technology and e-Learning at a total cost of GH¢95,000
Nana Owusu Afari, Nkosuohene of Worawora and president of the Association of Ghana Industries who chaired the function, reminded chiefs who due to circumstances and protracted chieftaincy disputes should resolve them amicably so that they would use it to attract investment and create jobs and wealth towards sustainable development.
He pointed out that lack of festivals could deprive communities of their tourism potentials and setting of new agendas in their quest to bring development to their people.
He explained that most of the nation’s tourist attractions are not accessible and that there is the need to the government to assist the private sector to put in place other facilities required to develop our tourism potentials.
Togbe Afede made the call when he joined the chiefs and people of Likpe Traditional Area to celebrate their Lekoryi (Unity) festival at Likpe-Mate in the Hohoe Municipality.
It was on the theme “tourism for sustainable development and wealth creation.
Togbe Afede who is the President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs noted that a similar programme to ensure the availability and uninterrupted supply of electricity throughout the country would help the standard of development.
“I believe it will make sense to leverage our natural resource and ornaments to provide the funds for these infrastructural programmes now, rather than from piecemeal budgetary allocations”, he said.
The Agbogbomefia stressed on the need for an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) tourism programme, alongside the domestic tourism programme to attract visitors from the sub region since “ we cannot have more visitors from Europe or America of Asia than we can possibly have from a among our West African neighbours”.
Togbe Afede pointed out that chiefs must have an important role to play in packaging and promoting the nations tourism to the outside world and patronise them if they have to be of interest to outsiders.
In recognition of the importance of tourism to the development of the Volta region, the Agbogmefia disclosed that under the Volta Region Economic Development plan, a hospitality skills training school is envisaged as one of the flagship projects aimed at equipping the people with skill relevant to the hospitality sector.
Nana Soglo Alloh IV Otekple of Likpe Traditional Area lamented that due to unforeseen circumstances and protracted chieftaincy disputes the festival which serves as a unifying force in the area could not be celebrated frequently towards peace, unity ands development.
He observed that the chieftaincy institution as a rallying point for maintaining for honouring the past and assurance of a bright future.
However, Nana Alloh cautioned” that the way partisan politics is creeping gently into the noble institution pose a formidable threat to peace and national development and that there is the need for to remind chiefs not to encourage partisan politics so as to preserve our own dignity and that of the dignity of the institution,”
On the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals he said plans are far advanced to provide electricity to all educational institutions in the communities as a first step of getting them ready for Information, Communication and Technology and e-Learning at a total cost of GH¢95,000
Nana Owusu Afari, Nkosuohene of Worawora and president of the Association of Ghana Industries who chaired the function, reminded chiefs who due to circumstances and protracted chieftaincy disputes should resolve them amicably so that they would use it to attract investment and create jobs and wealth towards sustainable development.
He pointed out that lack of festivals could deprive communities of their tourism potentials and setting of new agendas in their quest to bring development to their people.
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