Akwamu Adjena-Tafohene advocates for peace and development at Adjena-Tafoman

Osaberima Nana Appiah Boadu, the newly installed chief of Adjena-Tafoman, has called on indigenes to prioritize unity and peace to ensure progress and development in the community.

In a recent interview, the chief urged residents to promote peaceful coexistence and protect one another’s interests to foster development and alleviate poverty within the community.

“Without your collective efforts, there will be no Adjena-Tafoman. Forgive one another as always and embrace change to ensure that our community progresses in terms of development for the betterment of all of us,” he emphasised.

Osaberima Nana Appiah Boadu also congratulated President John Dramani Mahama on his emphatic victory in the December 7, 2024, presidential elections.

He called on the President not to overlook Adjena-Tafoman in his developmental agenda.

“I want to use this opportunity to congratulate the newly sworn-in President of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, and his party for winning the general elections. I, along with the entire Adjena-Tafoman community, stand solidly behind him and plead that he should not forget about us in terms of development as he begins his term,” he remarked.

He said his community is seriously lacking when it comes to development adding the lack of “classrooms and dormertries for the Adjena Senior High and Technical School as well as the road from Akosombo to Adjena, Adumasa and Gkyekity.”

He also lamented about the high level of unemployment rate in the area and called on the next NDC government and VRA to create more job opportunities to be able to absorb some of the youth in the area.

“I call on the youth not to use the unemployment crisis as an excuse to engage in unlawful acts that may land them on the wrong side of the law,” he cautioned.

Addressing rumors about the destoolment of the queen mother, Nana Okorwaa IV, he urged the public to disregard such baseless allegations.

“The kingmakers and principal members of the Oyoko Royal Family of Adjena-Tafoman are the only legitimate authority empowered to enstool or destool a chief or queen mother of the traditional area. There is no other body or group of persons with such authority. I encourage the public to ignore these false claims made by unscrupulous individuals,” he stated.

Giving a brief history of the community, he noted that the Adjena-Tafoman people stem from time immemorial to settle at Old Adjena in 1600 BC where the Akosombo Dam was built and they were relocated to the New Adjena as a result of the construction of the Akosombo Dam.

According to the chief, Adjena gave out some hectares of its land to some ethnic groups for farming as a show of brotherliness.

Eventually, Adjena-Tafoman is a member of the Akwamu Traditional Council through the benkum division with Nana Kwafo Akoto III as the President and Nana Afrakoma II as the paramount queen mother in the Asuogyaman district

“None of these ethnic groups engaged in wars with the people of Adjena. As a gesture of brotherliness, Adjena gave some hectares of its land to these groups. Eventually, Adjena-Tafoman became a division of the Akwamu Traditional Council,” he explained.

He concluded, “The people of Adjena are neither a colony, province, nor settlers under the Akwamus but an autonomous people and must be treated as such.”