Togbe Dzegblade IV, Chief of Adaklu Kodzobi, has urged the people of the newly created Adaklu District to pay their levies and rates to the Assembly to generate funds for development.

“The Assembly needs maximum revenue to enable it to stand on its feet”, he said.

Togbe Dzegblade, a government appointee in the assembly, made the call at the launch of the 2013 edition of the annual “Bliza” (Corn festival) of Adaklu-Kpdzobi in Accra over the weekend.

The festival instituted at the end of the 1983 drought was to “honour corn” for saving the community from being decimated by hunger and also thank God for his mercies.

The festival has become a rallying event for unity and for raising funds for the community’s development.

Togbe Dzegblade said the people of the new district should not be aloof and expect government to do everything for them.

He said the community, which is situated between Ho Polytechnic and the land acquired for the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), had large tracts of land for estate development.

Togbe Dzegblade said funds raised at this year’s festival slated for November 3, would be used to complete a 20-seater water closet project and tackle a community centre to serve as a library and centre to train the youth in computer literacy.

He appealed to government to provide the people of the area, predominantly corn farmers, with irrigation facility to boost farming to ameliorate the adverse effects of climate change on farming.

Togbe Dzegblade congratulated Ghanaians for the maturity they exhibited during the ruling on the 2012 election petition at the Supreme Court and said “unity and peace should always be our guiding principles because we are one people, one nation with one destiny”.

Mr. John Debrah, an Accra based Business Executive, who chaired the function, entreated the youth of Adaklu not to waste their energies on unproductive ventures because their destinies were in their own hands.

GNA