Nana Adawu XIII, Chief of Gomoa Hwida, has commended his people for creating a peaceful environment towards the growth of the country.

“I believe that if all of us get committed to whatever we are doing, irrespective of our ethnicity, religious and political affiliations, and eschew all negative tendencies, the progress the country needs will be attained,” he stated.

Nana Adawu XIII said this at a durbar to commemorate the annual festival of the town and his first anniversary as chief.

The celebration commenced with a general clean-up exercise and traditional and customary rites to appreciate their ancestors for their blessings throughout the past year and ask same for the year.

The chief stressed the need for all to join hands with the government and its agencies to whip up indiscipline and fight all manner of social vices in the society for a better Ghana.

According to him, if businessmen, academicians, politicians, traditional rulers and, indeed, the entire populace should render their respective national service as required, it would largely enhance the socio-economic development of the country.

Nana Adawu said his community was surrounded by more than seven communities who were all dependent of fishing and farming.

But, he said, they were facing economic challenges because the young men and women had migrated to the urban centers to seek for greener pasture.

He, therefore, appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to support the local farmers to expand their farming activities.

He announced that, in collaboration with his external partners, they have been able to secure a permit to begin the construction of a Modern Recycling Plant, which would have the capacity to employ more than 2000 young men and women in and around his community by June when it would officially commence production.

The chief appealed to his people, non-governmental organizations, and corporate bodies to support the educational endowment fund he had established to sponsor brilliant but needy students in the area.