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LEKMA:Teshie ends Homowo celebration amidst merry making

Men, Women, Children, kinsmen and the entire folks in and around Teshie in the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipality were in jubilant mode when they brought their annual Homowo festival to an end amidst merry making.

Date Created : 9/9/2013 1:58:18 PM : Story Author : GhanaDistrict.Com

Men, Women, Children, kinsmen and the entire folks in and around Teshie in the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipality were in jubilant mode when they brought their annual Homowo festival to an end amidst merry making.

The festival was climax with street carnivals on principal streets in the area and lasted over night.
 
During the occasion, seven flags were hoisted around the Teshie Township by the various groups and clans in the town to show their allegiance to cooperate with each other as well as to signify peace, unity and stability among them.

While this is on-going another group follows some selected persons to carry an ancestral big pot usually known as ‘Sese,’ around the town to invoke the blessings of God unto them.

The main aim of the festival is to hoot away hunger.

Member of Parliament for the area, Hon. Benita Sena Okity-Duah who made this information known in an interview called for peace and stability and asked them to bury their political differences in order that they can push development forward.

Irene Kwakye/Ghanadistricts.com
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