The chiefs and people of Weta Traditional Area in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta region, Ghana have marked their annual traditional festival, Home Coming and Rice Festival , with a call for unity and team work towards the development and progress of Weta.
Speaking at a grand durbar of Chiefs, Queen mothers and Elders to climax activities that marked the festival at Weta, the traditional capital on Saturday October 26th 2024, The Paramount Chief & Overlord
Of Wet Traditional Area, And
President, Weta Traditional Council, Torgbuiga Akpo Ashiakpor VI hit on the need for reconciliation, peace, unity within the Weta Traditional Area and a good fellowship among all indigenes of Weta, so as to development.
“Weta Traditional Area is in the news today not for troubles, not for confusion, not for lawlessness but Weta is in the news for development and empowerment of its citizens anchored on unity. That the 2024 Home Coming & Rice Festival is not only launched and to raise funds for the subsequent celebrations but
beyond the fact that festivals help us forge close bonds with our ancestors and seek protection, festivals also play significant roles historically, religiously, socially, culturally, morally, politically and economically”he said.
Paramount Chief & Overlord
Of Weta Traditional Area Torgbuiga Akpo Ashiakpor VI further said there is the need to always be guided by our sacrifices and valour of our ancestors to bring Weta Traditional Area thus far and take a rightful position among traditional authorities in Ghana, if only 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.
For it is truism when we say “ati ȡeka mewͻ ne ave o” to wit, a single tree cannot make a forest. It is equally true when we say “asiȡeka melea todzo o” (one hand cannot catch a buffalo).
Coming together is beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is
success – Henry Ford.
Undoubtedly, unity is something to yearn for, to endeavor to possess, but it cannot be willed by mere rhetoric.
That we must all state without equivocation that unity is not the absence of disagreements, but a consensus to agree to work
together.
The truth therefore remains that we can’t get united by ignoring the questions that we
have faced” Torgbuiga he add.
Weta Traditional Area is blessed with enormous resources, the greatest of which is the human resource.
He further appealed to government to modernized the Weta Markets to give them a facelift for a better outlook to improve upon trade and commercial Rice Sales activities in the Wets area.
Torgbuiga Akpo Ashiakpor VI continues to commended all well-meaning indigenes of Weta 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 Weta traditional area and also to deliberate on matters affecting the traditional area and how to develop and improve the socio-economic well-being of the people.
This year Festival was celebrated on the theme: unity; foundation for development therefore is apt.
Source Hebrews Pouyeli II Gatingo African
