Amuana Praso citizens in Accra launch Amantuo

CITIZENS of Amuana-Praso resident in the Accra and Tema metropolitan areas last Sunday organised a fund-raising ceremony in aid of development projects in the town.
Led by the Amuana-Praso Kro Ye Kuo, the citizens, also launched the Amantuo Festival scheduled to be celebrated in Amuana-Praso next year.
The yearly Amantuo Festival signifies the journey the people of Amuana Praso made from Asante Juaben in ancient times to their present abode in the Eastern Region.
In his remarks, the Chief of Amuana-Praso, Nana Opoku Agyemang 11, advised the citizens to give back to society by supporting development projects back home.
He said with education as the focal point for next year’s festival, every citizen, both home and abroad should find means of playing a role in educating the youth in the town for future development.
Nana Agyemang commended members of the union for their initiative and prayed for their well-being as they lived outside their hometown to make ends meet.
For his part, the Gyaasehene of Asante Juaben, Nana Owusu Yentumi Akyeampong, stressed that education could be better if parents, children, as well as the government played their respective roles effectively.
Concentrating on parents and children, Nana Akyeampong said as parents did well to fund the education of their children, the children should also bear in mind that they could not survive in this modern world if they did not climb high on the educational ladder and so they should study hard.
He explained that education is important, especially for them as youth and urged them to take their studies seriously.
Nana Akyeampong commended members of the Kro Ye Kuo for coming together with the aim of developing their hometown and also extended warm felicitations from the Omanhene of Juaben, Nana Otuo Siribuo, to the people.
Giving some background information, the Chairman of the union, Mr S. L. Ofori Owusu, said the Amuana-Praso Kro Ye Kuo was formed about 31 years ago and added that it had assisted in bringing some development projects to the town and mentioned electricfication and water projects.
The Chairman for the occasion, Mr David Foster Forson, advised that since the citizens had chosen education as the theme for next year’s festival, they should set a target which they would endeavour to achieve.