Support Africa's investment drive, says Omanhene

Kokofu (Ash), July 4, GNA - Barima Offei Kwasi Okogyeasuo III, Omanhene of Kokofu Traditional Area, has called on Africans in the Diaspora to support the investment drive of African governments. He said apart from regularly visiting places they recognise as their ancestral homes, Africans in the Diaspora should assist in the fight against squalor, diseases and poverty that affect the development of the people Africa.

Barima Okogyeasuo was speaking during the enstoolment of an African-American, Professor Jerome Hanley as Nkosuohene of the traditional area. The new Nkosuhene who traced his roots to Kokofu was given the stool name, Nana Osei Agyemang Amprofi. Barima Okogyeasuo asked Prof Hanley to consider the honour done him as a duty "to go round and rally all our relatives who have lost touch with their roots back home to assist in national reconstruction.'' He said:''you have been named after one of our great warriors and this should inspire you to bring back all our people to their ancestral home."

Barima Okogyeasuo presented Prof Hanley with a stool as a symbol of his authority and released land for the building of a stool house and a residential accommodation. Nana Osei Agyemang Amprofi said he had been committed to the welfare of children and would, therefore, ensure that those in the area received education. He donated books and other education materials valued at about 25 million cedis to the Traditional Council for distribution to schools in the area.