Adansi South Assembly to set up cultural fund

New Edubiase (Ash), Jan. 24, GNA - The Adansi South District Assembly is to establish a cultural development fund to support and promote Ghanaian cultural activities in the area.

Mr Dominic Alfred Kwaku Yeboah, Acting District Chief Executive, gave the hint at the weekend when he inaugurated a 10-member cultural committee and also outdoored the District's cultural group at New Edubiase.

He said the fund would be used to organise cultural activities to showcase the culture and traditions of the people in the area to help inculcate in the youth the true moral values as manifested in the Ghanaian culture.

The DCE said some of the activities would also be geared towards bringing the youth and the old people who were the custodians of the customs and the traditions of the land together for an interaction as a means of handing down cultural values to the younger generation. Cultural competitions would also be organised at the first cycle school level to highlight certain aspects of culture such as institutions, artefacts and customs, which would go a long way to stem immoral acts among the youth resulting from the adulteration of the indigenous culture by the advent of foreign culture.

Mr Yeboah called on other districts to emulate the example by replicating the setting up of the cultural fund to help protect the nation's culture.

Nana Guahyia Assiama Ababio, New Edubiasehene, advised the cultural group to show humility and respect to the trainers and to each other as members to enable them to act as good ambassadors of their culture. Mr S.F. Adjei, Ashanti Regional Director of the Centre for National Culture, urged teachers in the District to attach much importance to the teaching of religious and moral studies to enable children to appreciate their own culture instead of foreign ones.

The committee has Nana Kwaku Amoah as chairman and Mr Paul Adofo-Amoako as secretary.