Be fair to all — Togbui Adrakpanya

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Dzodze
06/03/08

THE Fiaga of the Afife Traditional Area in the newly inaugurated Ketu North District, Togbui Adrakpanya V, has cautioned all stakeholders of the new district to play a fair game in the corporate interest of all traditional areas in the area.
He said the people of the capital of the district, Dzodze, should refrain from manipulating the district to their advantage and rather involve all and sundry to ensure that there was understanding among all partners for equitable development.
Togbui Adrakpanya said this when he delivered an address as the chairman at the inauguration of the new district at Dzodze last Friday.
He also advised workers who would be posted to the new district to work as a team and avoid selfishness, greed and gluttony, adding that assembly members should desist from writing anonymous letters.
A circuit court judge at Aflao, Group Captain M.M. Obeng-Ntim (retd), administered the oath of office to the 29 assembly members.
In an address, the Ketu District Chief Executive, Mr Justice Cudjoe, called on the people to support and co-operate with the new assembly.
“Let us all, therefore, willingly meet our tax obligations to the new assembly by paying the necessary rates and fees to the assembly willingly,” he said.
Mr Cudjoe also called on landowners to release land on flexible terms for the siting of development projects that might come in the way of the assembly.
He advised the assembly members to abide by the principles of consensus building as had been the case when they were with the old Ketu Assembly.
The Volta Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, read President J.A. Kufuor’s speech at the ceremony, which was graced by the chiefs and people of the Dzodze, Afife, Weta, Tadzewu and Penyi traditional areas which formed the new district.