The Atwea festival is celebrated by the people of the Akyem Akroso traditional area in the month of October every year. This year’s celebration attracted thousands of people, both home and abroad, with highly patronizing programs and activities, making it all the time the best. The week-long celebrations started with a health walk and medical screening, football competitions, cleaning-up exercise, mammoth floats, artist nights, a grand durbar, and a Thanksgiving service.
MP’s SUPPORT
The member of Parliament for the area, Hon. George Kwame Aboagye, who is an indigene and a royal of the Atweaman stool, took an active part in the preparation and celebration of the festival. As per customs demand, the MP donated a big cow, assorted drinks, and undisclosed cash amounts to Nananom to start the preparations for the festival. The MP supported the organization of a massive float, which brought the youth across many of the towns and villages in the constituency together.
Hon. George Kwame Aboagye engaged the services of celebrated Ghanaian artists Wendy Shay and Kofi Kinaata to entertain the constituents on the eve of the grand durbar. The two artists entertained the crowd that thronged the premises of Atweaman FM, owned by the MP. In attendance were the MP, the DCE, regional party executives, constituency executives, Hon. Assembly members, Nananom, and many more from neighboring districts. During the fund-raising activity at the grand durbar, the MP and his DCE again donated assorted drinks and cash amounts of GHS 7,000. The regional minister also donated Ghs10,000 as his support for the developmental projects initiated by the chiefs at Akroso.
