Do not scare off investors - Chief

Nana Mununkum III, chief of Dutch Komenda in the Central Region has appealed to people in authority not to take actions that would scare off tourists and potential investors into the country.

He made the appeal during the annual general meeting of Dutch Komenda Youth Association at Dutch Komenda on Boxing Day.

Nana Mununkum noted that tourism could be a major cash earner for the nation by attracting investors who could also assist in the country's socio-economic development.

He urged government officials to treat tourists and potential investors nicely and project the well-acclaimed Ghanaian hospitality.

Nana Mununkum said an African-American journalist and the Director of Communications for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in the United States, Miss Sandra Rattley-Lewis and her mother and sister left Ghana in

September this year highly disappointed as a result of alleged harassment by the Elmina District Police.

According to Nana Mununkum, Sandra had traced her ancestral roots to Nsona Atta Eku family of Dutch Komenda and has for the past five years been visiting the town annually and discussing the area's development with the community leaders.

He said Miss Sandra had even acquired a plot to build a house so that she could induce other African-Americans in the family to come and invest in Ghana.

Nana Mununkum said in appreciation of her contribution to the development of the town the Atta Eku family decided to enstool Sandra as a family Queen.

He said September 14, 2002 was scheduled for the enstoolment of Sandra's mother as a family Queen at Dutch Komenda.

Subsequently, Sandra and her mother and sister arrived from the United States on September 12, 2002 for the enstoolment.

He said on the morning of Saturday, September 14, the day of the enstoolment, while Sandra and her mother and sister were getting ready at Coconut Grove Hotel, at Elmina, the police allegedly ordered them not to go to Dutch Komenda for the ceremony else they would be arrested.