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Anfoega
traditional area to conduct family registration
Anfoega (V/R), April 8, GNA - The Anfoega traditional area
is to compile a register of heads of families and issue
identity cards to citizens to make for effective local
governance and development.
This would facilitate easy interaction between the
traditional authorities and the citizens and enhance
development planning and resource mobilisation.
Togbe Tepre Hodo IV, Paramount Chief of the area announced
the initiative at an Easter durbar at Anfoega on Saturday,
under the theme, "Strengthening the basic unit of the
family".
He expressed optimism that the people would co-operate to
make the exercise successful to revive the self-help spirit
in the area.
Togbe Hodo said citizens from the area were expected to
contribute annually towards the development, adding that,
adequate structures had been put in place to account for
funds collected and how it was used under the programme.
Togbe Ganahene Akompi V, Krontihene of the area in a
welcoming address said the family remained the best basic
unit for local administration and governance, "it is the
family unit that builds the community", he emphasised.
Professor Gabriel Ameka, President of Dzadikumanenyo, a
development oriented association in the area, expressed the
hope that the area could mobilise local efforts to develop
Anfoega into a "wealthy and healthy community worth living
in".
He said the Association had revived work on some abandoned
projects initiated by the people including streetlights and
water supply and appealed for the support of the people to
accomplish.
Professor Ameka said the association had embarked on the
rehabilitation of a community centre in the area, which was
built in 1954, adding that, it was raising a hundred million
cedis to complete the project by the end of the year.
A total of 58 distinguished personalities from the area
including Togbe Tepre Hodo III, the first Chairman of the
erstwhile Trans Volta Togoland were honoured for their
meritorious service to the traditional area.
GNA
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