Downpour prevented climax of festival at Senya Beraku

The climax of this year’s celebration of Akomase festival by the Chief’s and people of Senya Beraku Traditional area has been deferred to next year due to the heavy downpour in the area last Tuesday 26th August, 2014.

The drains and gutters in the town were filled to the brim with water, compelling celebrants on the street to seek refuge at nearby homes and drinking spots.

Neenyi Kow, Head of Bosompra family and also the Festival Planning Committee Chairman said this while addressing the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area and his entourage who paid a courtesy on him and members of the planning committee at his residency in Senya Beraku.

He said all other activities of the festival went on smoothly and expressed the hope that by next year, the misunderstandings among some elders will be resolved to make the festival a unique one to pave way for investment and tourism.

Mr. Sampson Abbey Armah, DCE for Awutu-Senya West, congratulated the planning committee for a good work done.

The DCE warned the people who wanted to take the law into their own hands to create confusion to desist from doing so, since the law will not let them go free.

“There is no court in Ghana that can best settle chieftaincy matters in the area which will bring everlasting peace and bury all the chieftaincy disputes other than the Senya people themselves,” he said, adding, “Let us reflect on the number of years we have indulge in disputes and its impact on development”.

Mr. Armah stated further that the Assembly will from October this year continue its consultations with key stakeholders in the protracted Chieftaincy dispute in the traditional area and expressed the hope that Nananom will consider their positions to allow mediation to take place.

He used the occasion to advice the people to adhere to the several educational programmes made on radio, the television and the newspapers on the recent emergence of the Ebola disease, so that they all will be healthy and live in peace to contribute their quota towards the development of the district.