The chief of Battor-Atsiekpoe in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, Torgbe Akatti V, has made a passionate appeal to government and philanthropists to help them reconstruct their Museum, which was collapsed by the recent flood waters from the Akosombo and Kpong Dams spillage.
He noted that, as the village was cut off by the floods, parts of the community were inundated by the flood waters, which collapsed some mud houses, including the Museum.
The Museum, he disclosed, had been in existence for many years and was one of the major tourist attraction in the village and Ghana.
‘As it is now, we don’t have a place to store our artefacts and antiquities because the Akosombo Dam flood has collapsed our Museum,’ the chief lamented.
In a release by Ex WOI Bright Segbefia, an opinion leader of the community, Torgbe Akatti V was speaking at the community’s annual fund-raising festival, attended by dignitaries, including Rev Francis Amewuho Segbefia of God’s Power Mission and Torgbe Tuidedzi.
Torgbe Akatti V described the collapse of the Museum as a huge blow to the preservation of their heritage and that urgent attention is required to reconstruct it.
The target of the festival was to raise funds to put up an official residence for the midwife of the CHPS Compound put up by the community through Self-Help.
The chief said the absence of official accommodation for the midwife is hampering her smooth operation, since she lives far away from the health facility, which was commissioned in 2022.
He appealed to the indigenes to maintain unity and love for the development of the community. According to the release, the occasion was also used to outdoor the Queen mother of the community, Mama Kekesi Nyadeasi III.
She pledged her preparedness to work for the unity and progress of the community and appealed for support from the natives.
In his speech, Patrick Amega, chairman of the occasion, entreated parents to prioritise their children’s education, reminding them that education was key to the development of any community.
“The education of your children should be more important to you than any material possession because your joy and comfort in the future rest largely on the kinds of investments you make today in their education,” he intoned.
