Togbe Fiti to visit the US

Togbe Amenya Fiti V, Paramount Chief of Aflao Traditional Area, would visit the USA this month at the invitation of the Hampshire College, Massachusetts.

While there, he would deliver a lecture on the Aflao State and her cultural heritage and formalise an exchange programme between Aflao State College and the Hampshire College.

Togbe Fiti said this when he led a delegation of 15 chiefs and opinion leaders to pay a courtesy call on Mr Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, Volta Regional Minister at Ho on Thursday.

The Aflao State College is a private secondary school established in 1998 to provide opportunities in education for the youth of the area.

Togbe Fiti said the school was at present under stress and that sometimes, he paid salaries of tutors from his own resources.

Togbe Fiti said the possibility of a permanent linkage between Massachusetts and Aflao had been raised at meetings but no decision had been taken. Aflao is the eastern gateway to Ghana with the Republic of Togo.

He described Aflao as a microcosm of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as every national from its member countries lived there.