The Anomabu Traditional Council is to build a 'Heroes Centre' where the mortal remains of Dr George Ekem Ferguson would be re-interred and the effigies of Dr Kwegyir Aggrey, George Kuntu-Blankson and other eminent citizens of the town mounted.
Dr Ferguson's remains are to be brought down from Wa, where he was buried, after he had been killed by soldiers of Samouri Toure, a slave raider, while on duty for the colonial government. The Omanhene of the Traditional Area, Nana Amonu XI, announced this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Anomabu. He said the Council has meanwhile set up a five- member committee headed by himself to protect and preserve a memorial erected in honour of Dr Ferguson, a renowned politician, explorer and surveyor in the 19th century. Dr Ferguson, who was born in 1864, was instrumental in bringing many of the Northern Territories, now the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions under British rule.
Sir Arnold Hudson, a Governor in the colonial era, erected a monument, consisting of a cenotaph with a brass plaque bearing the biography of Dr Ferguson in the town at a site now known as the 'Ferguson Memorial Park'.
Nana Amonu said the establishment of the committee became necessary after a lunatic removed the plaque from the cenotaph a few weeks ago. He said the plaque has been retrieved from the man and that the committee plans to rehabilitate the park before replacing it.
