By Dennis Peprah, GNA
Sunyani, Aug. 20, GNA – A modern
museum is to be built at the Sunyani Technical University to preserve the
cultural heritages of and the bond of unity between the Chiefs and people of
the Bonos and Ahafos.
Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, the
Chairman of the Planning Committee for the 60th anniversary celebration of
the then Brong-Ahafo Region has announced.
The monument, to be completed within five
years, would preserve and showcase traditional regalia, ornaments and relics of
the chiefs and the people.
According to Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi, who is an
ex-Member of Parliament (MP) and a former Minister of Education under the
regime of former President John Agyekum Kufuor, the establishment of the museum
was part of activities for the anniversary and would help maintain the mutual
relationship and the history of the people.
Addressing a News conference in Sunyani, to
highlight the need for the anniversary, the Chairman of the Planning Committee
lauded the separation of Brong-Ahafo into three regions, saying it would move
development to the next level.
He however, added “the ties that bind the
people is not severed and even in separation our long-cherished unity remains
undisturbed and we are still needed in our various expertise to promote
development of Bono, Ahafo and Ghana as a whole”.
“The cultural museum that we seek to build
is to build a monument that would remind us about Brong-Ahafo and of its
60th anniversary so as to maintain the great lessons bequeathed to us by
Nananom”, Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi explained.
Throwing more light on the anniversary,
Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi said the theme for the event “United in Separation for
Progress” showed that Brong-Ahafo as a region was no more, but the people were
still united to strategise to push forward the levels of development in the
three regions.
Key events for the celebration include;
symposium, quiz competition and a grand durbar to climax the anniversary.
Before the region was divided into three,
Brong-Ahafo was carved out from the then Western Ashanti on April 14, 1959 and
named after the dominant and native inhabitants – Bonos and Ahafos, mainly
Akans.
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