We have no hands on banning traditional activities including farming – Aowin Traditional Council.
Members of the Aowin Traditional Council in the Western-North region have disclosed that the Council have been notified of certain individuals whose identities are unknown, circulating false information that the Council has restricted major activities including farming in the Aowin Traditional Area effective February 24th to April 14th, 2024 following the the death of the queen mother.
The Council says there is no truth whatsoever in the message that have so far been going rounds the Traditional Area and accordingly urged the residents to treat the information with contempt.
At a press briefing here, the Acting President of the Aowin Traditional Council, Nana Kojo Sikantia II said the Traditional Council is the highest decision-making body for chieftaincy matters in the area, and that there is no where the Council has met to ban traditional activities including farming in the area
Nana Sikantia II posited that banning traditional activities including farming are untraditional that goes against the Ghana Cocobod’s policy with regards to cocoa production, especially in the areas of farm maintenance like pruning, application of liquid fertilizers to increase cocoa bean yields among others.
The Acting President hinted that if the Council places ban on farmers from 24th February to April 14th 2024, it would affect not only the farmers to work hard to increase cocoa production, but it would also affect Cocoa Board’s policies on Cocoa production in the country.
We the Council members are of the view that we will not take any decisions that will eventually oppose the good policies of the government, hence the said messages going rounds within the area should be disregarded.
Nana Kojo Sikantia II reiterated that the Council will not take any decisions that could affect the economic activities in the Aowin Traditional Council and for that matter the country as a whole.
The Council noted that every community, be it a Metropolitan, Municipal, or District thrives on the economic activities of the citizenry, hence the Council will not take any move that could impede the progress of the Area
The Council members strongly believed and linked the spread of the alleged false information to some faceless Funeral Committee members of the late Queenmother in an attempt to disrepute the Council.
Though those elements have been going to the church camps and radio stations in disguise to making false announcements, they have unable to approach or speak to the highest authorities been the Aowin Traditional Council to justify their actions on what the Area’s custom says about royal’s death and the banning principles entail.
We therefore, entreat everyone to go on with their customary duties without fear, and instead disregard the false information about the one and a-half months restrictions order purported to be announced by the Aowin Traditional Council on social activities including farming.
