The hefs and people of Somé Traditional Area in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region have marked their annual traditional festival, Somé Tutu Za, with a call for unity and team work towards the development and progress of Somé.
Speaking at a grand durbar of Chiefs, Queen mothers and Elders to climax activities that marked the festival at Agbozume, the traditional capital on Saturday September 28th 2024, Paramount Chief and President of the Somé Traditional Council,Torgbiga Adamah III, hit on the need for reconciliation, peace, unity within the Somè Traditional Area and a good fellowship among all indigenes of Somé, so as to development.
“Somé can only develop and take it’s rightful position among traditional authorities in Ghana if we put the past behind us and forge a path of unity and togetherness. Let us avoid unnecessary division and units our progress as one people and Somé . For the only hope now is build a united front in readiness to face the future with hope.” ” he said.
The Makorsor of Somé admonished the youth to shun social vices and unruly lifestyles which had the potential to ruin their future and to hold only to what was good and beneficial to society, as they are the future leaders who the society was looking up to to contribute meaningfully to nation building.
He further appealed to government to modernized the Agbozume markets to give them a facelift for a better outlook to improve upon trade and commercial activities in the area.
Torgbiga Adamah said, the education of the population should be the priority of everyone as society can only advance faster with an educated population by the traditional authority to collaborate with relevant institutions to improve upon education in the area by instituting an Educational Fund to award scholarships to brilliant school children and to assist teachers in the area aquire further training to improve upon teaching and learning outcomes in the traditional area.
Torgbiga Adamah continues to commended all well-meaning indigenes of Somé for their unflinching support for him and his elders over the years especially for their commitment and contributions towards a successful festival.
He called for “all hands on deck” in order to accelerate the socio-economic transformation of the traditional area.
The 2024 Somé Tutuza is not only a period of joy and merrymaking, but to brings Somé citizens together to deliberate on matters affecting the traditional area and how to develop and improve the socio-economic well-being of the people.
Sométutuza, was instituted in 1976, and is celebrated to mark the migration of the Somé people from Keta to their current location.
It was celebrated on the theme: “Sustaining The Peace and Unity of Somé For Development”
Source Hebrews Pouyeli II Volta Forum GH
