He said the Planting for Food and Jobs and the One-Village One-Dam would have positive effects on farming communities if all challenges in the agriculture supply-chain were addressed.

Daasebre Ewusi, also the Vice President of the National House of Chiefs, said this at a colourful durbar of chiefs and people of Abeadze Traditional Area to climax their 2018 Ahobaa Kese Festival.

It was on the theme: “Improving Education; Key to Success in Transforming the Lives of the People of Ghana.”  The Festival commenced with activities including a remembrance service, health walk, free medical screening and a visit to Abeadze (ancestral grounds), where they performed customary rites to ask for the blessings and protection of the ancestors.

Earlier in the day Daasebre Ewusi and some chiefs of the area were carried in palanquins through the principle streets amidst drumming and dancing to the durbar grounds at Dominiase.

The Omanhen welcomed the participants and expressed gratitude to them for honouring the invitation to grace the occasion.  Touching on government’s initiatives, he said the structures and features of the Planting for Food and Jobs and the One-Village One-Dam, for example, should be clearly defined and communicated to leaders of the farming communities.

On the Free SHS, he said the rural school children would benefit immensely to be able to compete with their peers in the urban centres.  Daasebre Kwebu called for the rehabilitation of the Nkwanta-Dominase-Mankesim link road to enhance the free movement of goods and services.

He said the Abeadze State College, the heartbeat of the local educational system, certainly required assistance to make it ready to admit students when school reopened. “I wish to use this opportunity to thank Mr Kwamena Duncan, the Central Regional Minister, Mr K. K. Essuman, Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, and Mr Ekow Kwansah Hayford, the Member of Parliament, for their support towards the completion of the Abeadzeman State College and also refurbishing the only health centre in the area,” Daasebre Ewusi said.

He said though the Dominiase Clinic had been upgraded to a Polyclinic status, there was the need to equip it with personnel and logistics to cater for the health needs of the people of Abeadzeman and its environs.