The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe-South, Mr Kosi Kedem, has challenged the people of the Volta Region to recognise their heroes and honour them as other people have done.
He said some people hold the view that Ewes did not seem to be too enthused over their heroes, and added that “at best they have an avoid–approach attitude towards them”.
Mr Kedem said this when he delivered a lecture in remembrance of Dr R.E.G. Armattoe a distinguished Ewe who at the age of 40 held three doctorate degrees in Philosophy, Anthropology and Medicine.
He was also an advocate for legitimate Togoland independence and credited with the invention of the Abochi drug for curing guinea worm, toothache, bronchitis and boils and also a cure for the swollen shoot disease.
The lecture was organised by Homeland Study Foundation Group.
Mr Kedem said, “if he had belonged to the right ethnic group he would have been eulogised, adored, declared, hailed as a national hero and celebrated as such.
Mr Kedem said Dr Armattoe, apart from being a great scientist and scholar, was an unapologetic patriot.
He said the Armattoe Memorial Lectures, although belated, was a welcome one and in the right direction because it would create the opportunity to give Armattoe his due and restore him to his rightful place in history.
He, therefore, suggested the institution of an annual prize for best science student in the Volta Region in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and pledged GH¢100 a year towards this prize.
He also suggested, among others, that all the publications of Dr Armattoe should be traced, collated and compiled.
In an address, the President of Homeland Study Foundation Group, Mr Charles Kudzordzi, said the lectures had been instituted as an annual affair and would be repeated every year.
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