K.B. Asante urges youth to protect and promote Ga-Dangme heritage

By Dennis Narterh Adzigodi, Ada.

Dr. K.B Asante, President of the Ga-Dangme Council has urged Ga-Dangme

youth to do their best to promote and protect the rich Ga-Dangme heritage. He

said the sinking of the Ga-Dangme language, culture and heritage is as a result

of the doing of the Ga-Dangme people themselves.

Dr. K.B Asante gave this advice when he was reacting to questions

during the Ga-Dangme Council and Ga-Dangme Youth meeting with the Youth Groups in

Ada over the weekend at the Ada Community Centre, Ada.

He cautioned that although parents must ensure that their children

speak good English language, same should be done at home in inculcating the

habit of speaking of the correct and fluent Ga-Dangme dialect.

Dr. Asante added that the best medium of promoting one’s heritage

and culture is through the speaking of one’s language within their boundaries

and has strongly urged the Ga-Dangme people especially the youth to help

preserve the rich Ga-Dangme language.

He observed with keen interest that most Ga-Dangmes feel ashamed

of speaking their own language which has contributed to the sinking of the rich

GaDangme heritage and has urged all the youth to desist from such acts and

rather embrace the proper ways of promoting and protecting Ga-Dangme land.

Nene Sackey

Narh, Secretary to the Ga-Dangme Council in a speech delivered has also called

on all the Ga-Dangme citizenry; from the traditional leadership, ordinary Ga-Dangme

persons and Ga-Dangme persons in political offices to recognize the essence of

contributing meaningfully to the course of the Ga-Dangme.

He said the Ga-Dangme Council continues to campaign for higher

learning among Ga-Dangmes as well as advocating equitable governance and regime

policy implementation as regards the Ga-Dangme language, culture and Heritage

in the direction of avoiding socio- economic dispossession of Ga-Dangme living

everywhere in the world.

Nene Sackey Narh also promised that the GaDangme Council and the Youth council will

never reneged on advocating the judicious use of GaDangme resources to avert

any dispossessions of GaDangme rights and honour as well as issues relating to

the Ada Sea Defence Project and the Ada Songor Salt project have duly been

sought after for the settlement and to better the lot of the Dangme people.

Nii Yemofio, the GaDangme National Youth organizer

has advised the youth in all the GaDangme land to help champion the course of

the Association since they hold the key to the Development of the GaDangme

land. He paid glorious tributes to the Leading founders and President of the

GaDangme Council Dr. K.B Asante for his immense contributions towards the

success of the GaDangme movement and has called on all the youth to emulate

such acts so as they can become good replacement for such people when they are

no more.

In a closing remark the

chairman for the occasion Nene Professor Akpanglo Abbanam (III) has call on all

the GaDangme people to use their might and head to promote the GaDangme

heritage. He entreats all GaDangme citizenry to love one another and see

themselves as one people with a common destiny in championing the course of

protecting the Heritage of the GaDangme.

He said in an interview that the GaDangme council has been working

tiredly to finding a lasting solution to the recent chieftaincy disputes that

have engulfed the Ga mashie state. He further disclosed that the Council has

been able to mediate in the previous chieftaincy disputes in the region and

hopes the current dispute will soon be thing of the past.

Nene Prof. Akpanglo Abbanam (III) has therefore urged all the

GaDangme people to desist from acts especially property owing disputes that

will breed divisiveness among them but rather come together to form a

formidable bargaining power to help regain for their properties.

The council has therefore call on all the GaDangme citizenry to be

part of this years GaDangme Home coming ( GaDangme Kpe Ngua) that comes off this

October 2011 to

find lasting solutions to the problems confronting the GaDangme people.

Nene Tsatsu Pediator (IV) (Chief of Ada

Kudzlagbe Clan), Nene Tetteh Kakepeemi (I),(Youth Development chief of Ada),

Mrs Florence Aleenu Sal , Nii Yemofio ( GaDangme National Youth Organizer

) and many other dignitaries and patrons were present at the