ASOGLI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EXPRESSES CONCERN (PAGE 17)

The Asogli Traditional Council has expressed its concern on the deliberate misrepresentation and unsavoury remarks made against the Agbogbomefia, Togbe Afede XIV, in connection with the speech he delivered during the visit of President John Evans Atta Mills to the Volta Region last April.
The council explained that what the Agbogbomefia said were the exact and honest feelings of all genuinely concerned citizens of the Volta Region who were touched by the plight of their people and who wanted to do something about the situation.
The council said Togbe Afede XIV’s comments definitely did not refer to only the past eight years, though that was the most recent period since he had ruled for almost five years.
“Successive governments continued to pay very little attention to the development issues of the region,” the press release stated.
The release, jointly signed by the Fiaga of Matse Traditional Area, Togbe Osei Tutu IV; Fiaga of Ziavi Traditional Area, Togbe Kwaku Ayim IV, and Fiaga of Shia Traditional Area, Togbe Dadzawa III, and issued at Ho on Monday said it disagreed entirely with allegations that Togbe Afede’s remarks had tribal undertones and that tribalists hiding behind their mischievous interpretation of what Agbogbomefia said did so just to create disaffection for him.
It said as the President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, he spoke on behalf of the chiefs and people of the region, which comprised several ethnic groupings like Ewes, Guans, Akans, Dangbes, Konkombas, among others.
Ever since he was installed as a traditional ruler, the Agbogbomefia has never made a speech without lamenting over the sorry state of his people and his desire to fight abject poverty, ignorance, illiteracy and disease.
He works so hard to get his people emancipated from the vicious circle of stagnation, it stated.
It, therefore, said that Agbogbomefia certainly expected the government to do its part to complement the efforts of the chiefs and the people, and if that was not forthcoming, he had every reason to say what he had said.