Nene Tetteh Djan III, Paramount Chief of Prampram, on Tuesday urged the youth of the area to be law abiding and to ensure peace and unity.

Nene Djan III said peace is not only the absence of war but the need for all to prove that it would prevail by words and actions.

He said this in his annual address to usher in the Homowo celebration of the chiefs and people of the Prampram Traditional Area at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region.

Homowo is celebrated by the Ga-Adangbe people, and literally means, "hooting at hunger”.

Traditionally the occasion signifies a season of abundant harvest after a prolonged famine period.

The day was marked with the display of drumming and dancing amidst firing of muskets.

The Chief, elders and people in the community paraded along the principal streets where Nene Djan made sacrifices to the deity at the Tetteh Djan / Larbi Agbo We Royal House, before proceeding to various traditional family houses to sprinkle the traditional Kpokpoi to signify the beginning of Homowo in the area.

He expressed concern about the indiscriminate selling of land, suggesting the need for the people to protect the resource in trust of posterity.

“The land belongs to the generations yet unborn,” he added.

Nene Djan called for unity and peace in the area to enable the authorities to plan and execute developmental projects since divisions and litigations retard progress and the development of the society.

GNA