Mr Jerry Yao Ameko, the Adaklu District Chief Executive (DCE) said the future of parents could only be secured if they educated and protected their children from harm.
“It is our children that will protect whatever we gather today, so we need to educate and protect them from harm,” he stated.
Mr Ameko was addressing a grand fundraising durbar of the chiefs and people of Adaklu Kodzobi in the Adaklu district to climax their 2025 week-long Bliza (Corn Festival) celebration.
The festival was on the theme: “empowering the next generation of leaders through quality education.”
Mr Ameko told the gathering that the “quality of children we produce today determines the quality of the future of our country.”
“A family, community or nation that does not invest in their children has no future,” he said.
Mr Ameko therefore called on all parents to rededicate their efforts towards investing in the future of their children.
He entreated all concerned citizens of the area to wage a relentless war against indiscipline and the falling standard of education in the district.
He suggested to chiefs and opinion leaders in the district as a matter of urgency and as a first step to addressing the canker, spinners should be banned from playing music after burials and at night.
The DCE who is also the Dean of Volta Municipal and DCE stated that with proper planning the district could develop more rapidly because of its strategic position.
He reiterated that he would in collaboration with other stakeholders, organise Adaklu District Economic Forum to help bring industry players who would assist in unlocking the potential of the district.
“Adaklu has buried its potential in the ground for far too long, and it is time we unlock it by inviting investors to collaborate with us for the accelerated development of the district,” Mr. Ameko stressed.
He said this would also enable the district to benefit from the government’s 24-hour Economic initiative.
The DCE called on chiefs as custodians of the land to be in the forefront of sanitation issues in their communities adding “we want Adaklu to be one of the cleanest in the district.”
He told the gathering that the government would soon “put smiles on your faces” as the road network in the district was captured under the government’s Big Push Programme.
He assured the people that their CHPS Compound would be expanded to include a three-unit nurses’ quarters next year.
Togbe Dzegblade IV, the Chief of the community asked the youth to shun drugs and get rich attitude and rather pursue their academic persuits and learning of trades to enable them to secure their future.
He also entreated the people to always initiate their own development programmes and not always wait on the government for such projects.
Mr Matthew Wormenor, the Chairman of the festival planning committee told the Ghana News Agency that the festival was started in 1983 after that year’s drought and famine to honour corn for being the first foodstuff that saved them from imminent death and also thank God for a bumper corn harvest.
He said the festival had since being repackaged to serve as an occasion to unite the community and also raise funds for its development projects and is also one of the leading festivals in the district.
Mr Ameko and Mr Governs Kwame Agbodza Minister of Roads and Highways and Member Parliament for Adaklu presented an amount of GHC10,000 to the people.
GNA
