Lower Dixcove shows tradition and culture at Kundum Festival

It was a display of culture and tradition at a Grand Durbar of Chiefs held in honour of the Paramount Chief of Lower Dixcove Traditional Area, Nana Kwesi Agyemang IX, in climax of the celebration of the annual Kundum Festival.

Kundum means ‘Eat to satiate yourself,’ and is an annual festival celebrated by the people of Lower Dixcove.

This year’s Durbar of Chiefs drew a number of heavyweights, including the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, who chaired the Grand Durbar of Chiefs to climax the festival.

Awulae Attibrukusu III, Paramount Chief of Lower Axim and Vice President of the National House of Chiefs, was dressed in royal regalia to celebrate the occasion.

Also in attendance were sub-chiefs who make up the Lower Dixcove Paramountcy. Dr. Seidu Danaah, Minister of Chieftaincy, Nii Osaah Mills, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, and Mr. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, Minister for Energy and Petroleum, were all in attendance.

The theme for the celebration was ‘Sustaining the Environment for Development and Healthy Life.’

What was significant about this year festival was the launch of an educational fund by Nana Kwesi Agyemang to support needy but brilliant students in the area. Dr. Seidu Dannah, addressing the occasion, noted that chieftaincy could be an engine of social development and unity.

This is due the unity exhibited at the durbar in climax of the Kundum festival, which was enough testimony of the importance of the chieftaincy institution in fostering unity and development.

He said, in areas where chieftaincy had been neglected, the result has been an adverse effect of development.

The Chairman of the occasion, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, added that the problem of unemployment had the tendency of stripping the dignity of both male and female.

Consequently, he appealed to the government to attempt to decentralise the governance system, in order to help solve the problem of unemployment.