K'dua: Thousands pour out to celebrate

Koforidua, Jan. 28, GNA - Thousands of mostly the youth from different parts of the New Juaben Municipality on Monday poured unto the streets of Koforidua, the regional capital, to celebrate the 2-0 victory of the Black Stars over the Atlas Lions of Morocco in the 26th African Cup of Nations match played in Accra.

The celebrating youth, some wearing attire in the national colours and waving the national flag started massing unto the streets immediately the referees whistle went off to signal the end of the match as the fans watched the match on television screens. Some of the youth were seen in vehicles celebrating while others decided to undertake running exercises on the streets with others happily walking in groups and some of them also celebrating on motorbikes.

A mini-bus driver's mate, Richard Tetteh of a mini-bus was so happy as he called passengers to join his vehicle, shouting: "Ho! Kpong! Black Stars! Ho! Kpong! Black Stars, goal!"

The numbers of the celebrants kept increasing as different groups from other suburbs and nearby towns of the Municipality joined the celebration and by 1930 hours, the crowed was so thick that vehicles could not easily move on the main road between the Agriculture Development Bank and the Koforidua Central Market.

One young boy, Elliot Kwesi from Ogua, a suburb of Koforidua, told Each of the groups brought along various instruments including drums, with some dragging metallic objects on the road making various noises to raise the tempo of the celebrations.

Prior to the kick off of the match, Koforidua became a ghost town as people rushed home to their television sets.