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PRESS STATEMENT BY THE KWAHU DEVELOPMENT
ASSOCIATION (KDA) ON 2013 EASTER AND PARAGLIDING FESTIVAL
March 27, 2013
The annual Kwahu Easter Festival has now become an omnibus
event where all manner of people throng to the top of the
Kwahu Ridge to celebrate. To the real natives of Kwahu, Easter
celebration is a moment where families embark on a massive
home coming and this provides an opportunity to reflect on the
past and make amends, forging ahead to face the future with
unity and love. Families get united after being away for long
and the traditional authorities use the opportunity to meet
with community members. In the year 2005 the Kwahu Paragliding
Festival was introduced and this has taken the entire festival
to a different height, gaining international recognition.
Last year, a very unfortunate media reportage on the Easter
Festival dominated headlines which gave a very negative
account of the Kwahu people. The synopsis of this reportage
was an alleged open sex which tainted the image of Kwahu’s as
people who endorse immoral behavior. After thorough
investigations, the story turned out to be false. The KDA
wishes to underscore that Kwahu is a disciplined and religious
community with high morals and would be the last to allow or
encourage visitors to do such despicable things.
We wish to plead with you, our respected media to do a
thorough job by crosschecking all such serious rumors with the
authorities before publication.
We would like to use this medium to officially invite the
media and the entire country to this year’s Kwahu Easter
Festival which promises to be more exciting, bigger and
better. We wish to urge all guests and holiday makers to
celebrate in an atmosphere of respect for the laws. Kwahu
Development Association shall liaise with the security
agencies to ensure the safety of all celebrants. The following
behaviors shall therefore not be tolerated:
• Parking at unauthorized places to cause traffic jams.
• Reckless driving,
• Use of Unregistered Motorbikes,
• Criminal activities,
• Indiscipline and Hooliganism,
• Indecent dressing and all immoral behaviors.
We are very confident that this year’s Easter and Paragliding
Festival will live up to its billing as Nananom and the good
people of Kwahu would once again showcase the rich cultural
heritage of Kwahus. Let’s make the Kwahu Easter and
Paragliding Festival a showpiece of Ghana’s tourism
development agenda.
0208769319 / 0244708917- Kingsley Young Opare
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