Akoefe-Tokor reignites development initiative

The Akoefe-Tokor community near Ho in the Volta Region has reignited its development initiative after 35 years break.

The initiative with tourism development as its driving force was re-launched under the banner, ‘Morzor Za’ at Akoefe-Tokor to be celebrated every year to raise funds to finance projects.

Morzor Za commemorates the community’s historic exodus from Nortsie to Komedzrale to Atsiati and finally to its present abode 85 years ago.

It also symbolises the path of development which the community had trodden in the past.

A statement signed by members of the Planning Committee of the festival said: “it is to showcase the community’s unique history as custodians of the ‘Asiatokpe’ and the ‘Sonkpe’.”

Togbe Albert Amoah, 85, Regent of the community commended the youth for reviving the self-help spirit.

Togbe Amoah, said to be the first person to be born when the ancestors of the community first arrived at Akoefe-Tokor, said the locality has an enviable history of charting its own path of development.

He said the earlier settlers used hoes and cutlasses to construct a road to link other Akoefe communities and started a community school before government came to their assistance.

Mr Joshua Eli Buatsi, Assemblyman for the area, said the present generation must leave footprints of development as exemplified by their predecessors.

He donated two street-lights to the community.

Mr Jewel Dove-Amoah a youth leader said Akoefe-Tokor must relive its history and pass it on to future generations because “a community which forgets its history loses its spirit”.

He said though a small community, Akoefe-Tokor had achieved great things which generations must build on.

Akoefe-Tokor, together with Akoefe-Achati, Akoefe-Avenui and Akoefe-Gadza form the Akoefe traditional area.

The Akoefe communities and Kpenoe, Ho and Takla were founded by the direct descendants of Togbe Kakla.