The people of Ho-Asogli have launched this year’s annual yam festival and the fifth anniversary celebration of the enstoolment of the Agbogbomefia, Togbui Afede XIV, of the Asogli state.
The festival started from August 29 and will end on September 28. It will be climaxed on September 27 with a grand durbar to be held at the Jubilee Park in Ho.
Launching the festival, which will be on the theme “Towards a Better Future for Our Nation” a senior divisional chief of Ho-Asogli, Togbui Howusu XII, said the traditional area was determined to collaborate with all government agencies, the private sector and individuals in the Asogli state to help transform Ho Municipality in particular and the Volta Region as a whole.
He said the festival coupled with the fifth anniversary celebrations of the Agbogbomefia was aimed at charting a path for a sustained and rapid development of the Asogli state and the region at large.
Togbui Howusu, who is also the chief of Ho-Dome and chairman of the festival planning committee, said the slow pace at which the Asogli state was developing was cause for concern, adding that what was worrying was that it was the seat of government in the region and therefore had to be developed to merit its status.
He said the development of the youth as human resource was paramount, hence the establishment of the Asogli Education Trust Fund to pool financial resources to promote education and to revive the defunct Asogli Technical Institute at its new site at Akoefe.
The senior divisional chief therefore appealed to all citizens who pledged to support the state in previous years to redeem their pledges. He added that those who had not yet come on board should endeavour to donate freely towards the realisation of the objectives.
“Asogli state is for all of us; it is our collective responsibility to help build it. So we need all hands on deck,” he declared, adding: “This period on the traditional calendar of the people of Asogli state is one for merry-making, promoting peace and socialising”.
The Ho Municipal Manager of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Mr Prosper Pi-Bansah, promised the support of the scheme to register many people including the aged in the area.
The chairman at the function, Togbui Anikpui of Ho-Heve, for his part, said the festival would be unique and must be embraced by the people as a true heritage from their ancestors.
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