Kwahu Project

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017 

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chiefs go wild 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

y.antoh@yahoo.com 

AFEW weeks before the celebration 

of Easter, which begins 

today, Friday, April 14, 

the Obomeng Traditional 

Council, led by Nana Efah 

Pinaman III, warned holidaymakers, 

especially non-residents 

who are bent on celebrating the festivity 

in the Kwahu area to avoid dressing indecently 

as the chiefs and traditional 

leaders in the area will not countenance 

that. 

According to the Council, previous 

Easter celebrations in the town were 

characterised by indecent exposure particularly 

by female holidaymarkers. 

Speaking on behalf of the Obemeng 

chief, the Afinasoafohene of Obomeng 

Kwahu, Nana Akuamoah Asomani, said 

the chiefs had resolved that they would 

deal ruthlessly with anyone caught in 

the act of indecent exposure, provocative 

dressing and prostitution. 

Nana Asomani further warned that 

under no circumstance will the chiefs 

and people in the town allow either residents 

or non-residents to distort their 

tradition by dressing scantily or 

provocatively this year. 

“During Easter festivity, people from 

all walks of life come and indulge in 

certain dreadful activities such as fighting, 

robbery and prostitution, especially the 

girls, but such times are over. 

“We’ve said it over and over again that 

these things distort our tradition, but we’ve 

come to realise that some people adhere to 

it while others don’t,” he stated. 

Nana Asomani told the DAILY HER- 

• Over indecent 

dressing 

ITAGE that “this time we are glad you are 

helping us to tell the people that nobody 

can infringe on the rights of anybody, same 

way nobody can come and distort one’s tradition 

in his own land.” 

He expressed regret over the bad nature 

of the road network in the area and added 

that the chiefs are currently engaging the 

• Chiefs pouring 

libation 

Assembly to construct the roads before 

the festive season. 

“For example, there is this big hole at 

Abotarekwan, which is very dangerous. The 

assembly gave us an engineer to go with us 

to the site where he took notes on the situation 

and that was it. 

“We’d like to congratulate our brother 

• Holiday-makers warned against indecency 

Paa Kofi Ansong, who, every year from his 

own pocket, brings machines to clear the 

road for smooth access. We the people of 

Obomeng are very grateful to him,” he said. 

Nana Asomani used the occasion to invite 

all Ghanaians who are ready to respect 

their tradition and laws of the town to 

come in their numbers to celebrate this 

year’s Easter with them.

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Easter 2017: time to renew faith in Christ 

IT’S THAT time of the year again 

when Christians come together in one 

accord to celebrate Easter in remembrance 

of the resurrection of 

Jesus Christ from the dead. 

Easter, according to religious historians, 

is the culmination of the Passion 

of Jesus, preceded by lent - a 

40-day period of fasting, prayer, and 

penance. 

Across the Christian world, the 

customs of Easter festivities vary. 

They include sunrise services, exclaiming 

the paschal greeting, clipping 

the church and decorating 

Easter eggs ( which symbolises the 

empty tomb of Jesus). 

In Ghana, Christians herald the festivities 

by observing the lent period, 

Palm Sunday where church members 

march on the streets to display palm 

branches, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, 

Easter Sunday, also known as 

Resurrection Sunday and Easter Monday 

where the festivity is crowned 

with picnics. 

For many Christians in Ghana, 

Easter festivity is a time for sombre 

flection, family re-union and merrymaking. 

In Kwahu in the Eastern Region, 

the celebration is commemorated 

every year with a unique assembly of 

people laced with lots of fanfare and 

mega parties. 

Prior to the event, the country is inundated 

with advertising messages in 

the media to extol the arrival of the 

much-awaited and now famous 

Kwahu Easter. 

Hundreds of Kwahu natives, 

tourists and holyday-makers journey 

to the beautiful mountainous area to 

celebrate the festivity. 

There are, however, some social 

misfits who always take advantage of 

the assemblage of huge numbers of 

people to engage in criminal activities. 

Some ladies also wear indecent 

dresses in the name of fashion to the 

rather Christian festivity. 

Prostitutes also take advantage of 

the fanfare to engage in sexual 

promiscuity which has been condemned 

by the chiefs and people of 

Kwahuman. 

As we celebrate this solemn festivity, 

the DAILY HERITAGE 

wishes to urge all Easter celebrants to 

use the opportunity to renew their 

faith in Jesus Christ, while shying away 

from sinful acts which were the reasons 

why Jesus Christ was persecuted 

and died to atone for our sins. 

Does Easter really 

symbolise Christ’s death? 

COME EASTER Sunday, 

April 16, the churches in 

the Kwahu are expected 

to literally compete with 

organisers of entertainment 

programmes for the 

attention of the large crowd there for the 

Easter celebrations. 

Besides the regular Sunday services, 

the churches will hold outreach missions 

to win souls for Christ, in whose name 

Easter is celebrated world-wide. 

Interestingly, the commemoration of 

the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus 

Christ clashes with the promotion of immorality, 

which many observers associate 

with the Easter festivities. 

About Easter 

Easter is a festival and holiday to mark 

the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, 

described in the New Testament as having 

occurred on the third day of his burial 

after his crucifixion by the Romans at 

Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of 

the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent 

(or Great Lent), a forty-day period of 

fasting, prayer, and penance. 

Most Christians refer to the week before 

Easter as “Holy Week” and contains 

•Sermons during Easter have the death and ressurrection 

of Jesus Christ as the themes 

the days of the Easter Triduum including 

Maundy Thursday, commemorating the 

Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good 

Friday, commemorating the crucifixion 

and death of Jesus. 

The meaning of Easter also symbolizes 

the complete verification of all that 

Jesus preached and taught during His 

three-year ministry. If He had not risen 

from the dead, if He had merely died and 

not been resurrected, He would have 

been considered just another teacher or 

Rabbi. 

However, His resurrection changed all 

that and gave final and irrefutable proof 

that He was really the Son of God and 

that He had conquered death once and 

for all. 

However, there are some who believe 

that Easter did not always symbolize 

Christ's resurrection from the dead and 

the meaning of Easter was quite different 

from what Christians celebrate today. The 

feast day of Easter was originally a pagan 

celebration of renewal and rebirth. Celebrated 

in the early spring, it honoured the 

pagan Saxon goddess, Eastre. 

When the early missionaries converted 

the Saxons to Christianity, the holiday, 

since it fell around the same time as the 

traditional memorial of Christ's resurrection 

from the dead, was merged with the 

pagan celebration, and became known as 

Easter. The meaning of Easter was also 

changed to reflect its new Christian orientation. 

Today, the meaning of Easter, for millions 

around the world, has taken a different 

dimension. From its traditional 

church-going, Easter celebration is now 

seen as an occasion for merry-making 

with a lot of activities such as carnivals 

and sporting activities, to mark the festivity.

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History 

If you are not willing to risk the usual you 

will have to settle for the ordinary 

- Jim Rohn 

Kwahu Easter and the 

history of the people 

BY KWEKU DARKO ANKRAH 

FROM THE 

beginning of 

this month, 

Ghanaians have 

been inundated 

with myriads of 

blitz and glitz of advertising 

messages extolling the famed 

Kwahu Easter celebration. 

This annual event has become 

a class act and a unique 

assembly of socialites, holidaymakers, 

tourists and Kwahu natives 

who go on a pilgrimage to 

the Kwahu Hills to celebrate the 

three-day spectacular festivities 

unparalleled around this time 

on the Ghanaian festive calendar. 

The Kwahu Easter, which has now 

been accepted as part of Kwahu culture 

and national celebration, courtesy 

the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and 

Creative Arts, has a flurry of sociocultural 

activities in addition to how 

the indigenous Kwahus use the Easter 

to meet their families, resolve family 

problems, engage in festivities and 

observe quiet time. The grandeur 

of the activities that mark the 

Easter includes paragliding, hiking, 

carnivals and street jams. 

Corporate sponsorship 

Taking advantage of the Kwahu 

Easter to promote tourism, the 

Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) 

and Ministry of Tourism, Culture 

and Creative Arts have since 2005 

continued to run the Kwahu Easter 

Paragliding Festival as the core part 

of the three-day event. Corporations 

and businesses in the country 

have also sponsored the programmes 

as part of their Corporate 

Social Responsibility programmes. 

Who are the Kwahu 

people? 

The Kwahu or Okwawu are 

hardworking mountain-dwelling 

agriculturalist and the famous business-oriented 

Kwa-speaking people 

that form a subset of the larger Akan 

ethno-linguistic group living in southcentral 

Ghana, on the west shore of 

Lake Volta in the Eastern Region. The 

Kwahu live specifically on part of the 

Kwahu sandstone plateau, with the 

Afram Plains to the north, Akim 

Abuakwa to the south, Ashanti Akim 

to the west, and the Volta River forming 

an approximate boundary to the 

east. 

Kwahu people speak a Twi-dialect 

of Akan language, which is within the 

Kwa language group (Twi, Sefwi, 

Mfantse, Chokossi, Nzema, Ewe, et 

al), but also falls in the larger Niger- 

Congo phylum. The derivative of 

Kwahu-Twi spoken in indigenous 

Kwahu towns such as Abene, Abetifi, 

Pepease, Atibie, Nkwatia, Obo, 

Bepong, Tafo, Akwasiho, 

Obomeng, Twenedurase, Nteso, 

Nkwakwa, Mpraeso, Asakraka, Aduamoa, 

Pitiko, Sadan, Burukuwa, 

Nkwantanane, Ahinasie and Donkorkrom 

is slightly different from Asante-Twi, 

Akwapim-Twi and 

Akyem-Twi. According to Linguists 

Kwahus are fond of using the syllabi 

(La), (hunu) and the like. Thus they 

end their speech and pronunciation 

with words that end with "La" 

sound. In most cases, you will find 

that instead of "saa" the Kwahu ends 

it with “Saala” (that’s it), “yei ala” (just 

this). Therein dwells the distinction, 

and the Kwahus, especially Obos, are 

noted for such trend in speech delivery. 

The Kwahu slogan is Asase Aban, 

Yente Gyae (Protectors of the Land, 

We don`t quit) and also Obo (Rock) 

The people are 

very wealthy and 

successful traders 

who were the first 

to utilize their interior 

middlemen 

role to emerge as 

strong local business 

gurus 

or Obooba (Child of the Rock). 

The beautiful Kwahu Scarps and 

their residential polity have received 

platitudes from historians and anthropologists 

alike. Historians Macmillan 

and Kwamena Poh (1965) describe 

the wonderful climate of their mountainous 

town, Abetifi as “… the 

•All roads lead to 

Kwahu Easter 

•Nana Afriyie Fosua Kobour II, the queenmother 

of Obo-Kwahu is a promoter of 

decency and the preservation of the 

culture of Kwahu, especially during Easter 

Switzerland of West Africa, with 

nights as cool as May nights in Europe.” 

The people are very 

wealthy and successful 

traders who were the 

first to utilize their interior 

middlemen role to 

emerge as strong local 

business gurus. 

Sandwiched between 

Ashanti and 

the coast, by 1914 

thousands of 

Kwahu traders 

had spread all 

over the 

colony, to 

some parts of 

the Northern 

Territories, 

and even to 

French West- 

Africa. With 

their extensive 

adherence to 

mobility, the 

Kwahus immediately 

took advantage 

of the 

new opportunities 

for wage 

labour under 

colonial rule, 

both on public 

works and in the 

mines as far away 

as the 

Western Province. They also engaged 

in salt trading at Ada, carting copper 

bangles from Saltpond, commercial 

rubber business, sold cloth, and 

started tailoring work as sandals-makers 

as stepping stone to trade in the 

Gold Coast. Kwahus were the foremost 

in selling goods from Europeans 

of the Coast to the hinterlands and 

northern regions, whilst moving interior 

agricultural produce to the coast 

simultaneously. 

Kwahus love business 

In his 1968 journal article, “The 

Development of Kwahu Business Enterprise 

in Ghana since 1874-An 

Essay in Recent Oral Tradition,” Peter 

C. Garlick avers that Kwahu business 

entrepreneurial dexterity is steeped in 

a fable of how the Pra River deity 

asked the Asante and Kwahu people 

what gift they desired most, and the 

Asante asked for food and drink, but 

the Kwahu went for trade. Garlick 

(1968) avers that the Kwahus are “The 

'Jews of Ghana....and they are teased 

for their thriftiness by other groups. 

Many Kwahu will tell you that their 

trading abilities are in-born, though 

no Kwahu, in my experience, assumed 

that running a business was a simple 

matter. It was a skill to be acquired by 

training and experience, and this was a 

part of nearly every Kwahu child's upbringing, 

even if, especially in more 

recent years, only during the school 

holidays.”



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Get certification before 

you sell food in Kwahu 

• Health officer cautions food vendors 

BY PHILIP ANTOH 

FOOD VENDORS who 

want to sell during this 

year’s Kwahu Easter 

have been cautioned to 

meet the food and safety 

as well environmental 

health and sanitation certification. 

Speaking to the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE, the District Environmental 

Health Officer of Kwahu East, 

Mr Robert Mensah Begyira, said 

the assembly is currently giving certification 

to food vendors in its 

catchment area while those coming 

outside of the district must bring 

along with their proof of certification 

before they can be allowed to 

cook and sell food this year. 

“The assembly is currently 

working with various taskforces to 

• Flashback: Some food items displayed at the event 

inspect the certificates of food vendors 

and those found culpable of 

the law will face prosecution,” he 

said. 

The officer revealed that the assembly 

had already organised a 

medical screening for food vendors 

in the area, adding that local chop 

bar operators had also been educated 

on how to protect food from 

being exposed to the environment. 

He appealed to holidaymakers 

and the people of the Kwahu area 

and its environs to practise personal 

hygiene by looking around and 

dumping all rubbish into the available 

dustbins instead of littering 

the environment. 

“You see, we must all ensure 

that sanitation is observed at 

Kwahu this year to ensure that we 

are matured and are prepared to 

change from bad to good,” Mr Begyria 

said. 

He said the Kwahu East Assembly, 

in partnership with 

Zoomlion Ghana, will provide 

sanitation service by ensuring 

that they clean all the rubbish 

and waste to be generated during 

the Easter. 

“As we speak, we have distributed 

over thousand dustbins 

to the Kwahu area, especially 

Obomeng and the Paragliding 

site, to manage all the waste 

while Zoomlion has also been 

asked to provide mobile toilet to 

complement the existing facilities 

in the Kwahu area.” 

He, therefore, appealed to all 

holidaymakers, food vendors 

and the general public to ensure 

that this year’s Easter becomes a 

success. 

• Participants to be screened by health professionals 

Agoo FM organises health screening for revellers 

BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH 

AGOO FM 96.9 will stage a fitness 

walk on Saturday, April 15, as part 

of activities the station has lined up 

as part of the Kwahu Easter festivities. 

The walk is part of its proportion 

of promoting a healthy 

lifestyle during the merry-making. 

The Business Manager of the 

station, Mr Kofi Ansong Baffuor, 

said in an interview that it is the 

radio station’s duty to make its listeners 

stay fit during and after the 

celebration. 

The one-hour-and-thirty minute 

walk, which is being sponsored by 

Malta Guinness, will start at 6:00 

a.m. from the Agoo Arena, the 

forecourt of Agoo FM at 

Nkawkaw,. and end at the Nyarkoa 

Ba Nyarko Hotel, Obo Kwahu. 

Metro Mass Transit buses will 

convey all participants to the starting 

point. “Participants will be 

screened for sugar level, dental 

problems, and hypertension, given 

medical advice on how to live a 

healthy life. An aerobic exercise 

will also be organised. There will 

be paramedic personnel to provide 

first aid in collaboration with the 

Ambulance Services,” he said. 

The walk will attract side attractions 

such as the escort of the police, 

brass band music and 

refreshment from Malta Guinness. 

Agoo 96.9 FM , located at 

Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region, is 

a subsidiary of the Excellence In 

Broadcasting (EIB) Network.

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Six pilots for 

paragliding 

BY KOFI DANKWA 

SIX PILOTS have 

been invited by the 

organisers of the 

much-anticipated 

2017 Easter 

celebration in Kwahu area in 

the Eastern Region, the Kwahu 

South District Assembly has 

noted. 

According to the assembly, 

the six pilots would be assisting 

guests to experience the 

paragliding. The cost involved 

stands at GH¢ 250.00 per trip. 

He gave the assurance that 

the contractors assigned to 

work on various roads and 

entry points were busily 

working on the roads that lead 

to the Odweanoma Mountain, 

site for the paragliding. 

Robert Mensah Begyira, 

sanitation officer of the 

assembly, also said his outfit 

was collaborating with 

Zoomlion to provide proper 

sanitation services throughout 

the event. 

He said all roads were ready 

for motorists and pedestrians, 

but added that the Nkawkaw 

Atibie road would not be 

motorable to the public but to 

a specified category of 

dignitaries, especially pilots who 

would be supporting the 

paragliders. 

•Many tourists are expected to 

patronise this year’s paragliding 

Safety on roads 

guaranteed 

FROM EBENEZER NYAVOR, 

KWAHU 

THE EASTERN Regional Road 

Safety Commissioner, Mr Kwesi 

Yirenkyi, has said appropriate 

measures have been laid down by 

the Road Safety Commission to 

ensure road safety on the highways 

leading to the various places where 

Easter Festivities would be held. 

Speaking to Eugene Akoto 

Bamfo on Agoo FM’s morning 

show ‘Ene nso biem,’ he said that 

the Road Safety Commission 

(RSC) had noticed that road 

accidents occurred frequently 

during Easter festivities due to 

carelessness and recklessness on 

the part of some drivers and 

pedestrians. 

He announced that an effective 

national Easter Programme was 

held at Kpone in the Greater 

Accra Region by the RSC recently 

in commemoration of Easter 

festivities. 

According to Mr Yirenkyi, 

launching of Eastern Regional 

chapter of the programme would 

be held at Bunso Junction, near 

Linda Door restaurant, prior to the 

Easter festivities. 

According to Mr Yirenkyi, 

during the period dignitaries would 

attend the launch and advice would 

be given to drivers and pedestrians 

to be very careful on the road. 

“Also a check would be 

conducted on drivers’ observance 

of road signs because the RSC has 

noticed that some drivers are 

ignorant of road signs,” he 

observed. 

Activities to provide 

growth and dev. 

— Kwahu Dev. Association 

• Officials declare roads safe 

300 Police personnel 

to storm Kwahu 

BY KOFI DANKWA 

OVER 300 police personnel are 

expected to provide absolute security 

during the 2017 Easter celebration in 

the Kwahu area in the Eastern Region, 

the Kwahu South District Assembly has 

announced. 

At a press conference held to shed 

more light ahead of the celebration 

which begins today, the assembly said 

they were ready for the exhilarating 

event this year. 

The Public Affairs Director of the 

assembly, Mr Victor Agyei Mframa, 

said preparations were underway and 

that his outfit was in touch with all 

stakeholders to make the occasion 

successful. 

Mr Mframa stated that the assembly 

had liaised with the security outfit to 

provide maximum security, emphasising 

on the fact that over 300 security 

personnel would be deployed. 

Evans Antwi Boasiako, resource 

officer for the Ghana Tourism 

Authority, also speaking to Agoo News, 

confirmed that the site for paragliding 

which had become the most interesting 

aspect of the occasion, had been well 

prepared for all partakers except for 

some finishing touches. 

FROM EBENEZER NYAVOR, 

KWAHU 

A MEMBER of the Kwahu 

Development Association 

(KDA) in the Eastern Region, 

Mr Kingsley Opare, has 

revealed that a comprehensive 

plan had been initiated by the 

association to enhance growth 

and development in the Kwahu 

area and the entire nation 

during the upcoming Easter 

festivities. 

Mr Opare, who is also a 

consultant, disclosed that 

during the Easter festivities, a 

lot of activities would be 

coordinated by the KDA to 

ensure growth and 

development in Kwahu and 

also make the famous 

celebrations interesting in the 

region. 

Activities such as the 

paragliding festival would be 

held on the Odweanoma 

Mountain to attract foreigners 

and investors who would 

attend the Easter festival in the 

area. Mr Opare was speaking 

with Eugene Akoto Bamfo on 

Agoo FM’s morning show ‘Ene 

nso biem.’ 

He further stated that there 

• MTN set to do brisk business in Kwahu during the Easter holidays 

would be various activities such 

as traditional food cooking 

competition, visitation to the 

various tourist sites “because 

there is the need to identify and 

develop the various tourist 

sites,” he opined confidently. 

According to Mr Opare, 

dignitaries and visitors from all 

over the country and foreign 

lands would pay homage to the 

Chiefs of Kwahu during the 

Easter period and also cultural 

displays would be orchestrated 

at the Obomeng chief ’s palace 

by some schoolchildren to 

grace the occasion. 

He stressed the fact that the 

various activities, especially the 

Paragliding, would generate 

income to be used in 

development projects in the 

Kwahu communities and the 

country at large. 

He nonetheless explained 

trade fairs which are held 

during every Easter period 

would not be effective this year 

due to some challenges faced 

by the KDA.


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Telcos take over Kwahu 

• Businesses likely to boom 

BY ROSEMOND 

BOATENG ADDAI 

TELECOMMUNICA- 

TIONS COMPANIES 

are not left out of the 

Kwahu Easter festivities 

as major telcos will climb 

the Kwahu mountains to 

celebrate the Easter with their customers 

by ensuring that their networks 

function in the most efficient way so 

the customers could connect with their 

friends and families without any hitch. 

There will therefore be very fierce 

competition on the mountains among 

all the major telephony companies in 

the country as they intend to win the 

hearts of customers by giving them 

mouth-watering offers. 

Telcos sources say if you do not 

have money to buy credits, various promotions 

are going on every minute on 

the streets to entice merrymakers and 

you are likely to fit in. 

MTN will also support EIB from 

Thursday, April 13 to Monday, April 

17, to roll out the Akwaaba and street 

jam for the youth at Starboat, 

Nkawkaw and Obomeng. 

According to Mrs Cynthia Lumor, 

Corporate Services Executive of MTN, 

there will be highlife concerts for more 

matured people and an English Premier 

League viewing for the sports 

fans. 

“MTN is also driving the MTN 

Costume carnival, which is a music-driven 

procession blending contemporary 

carnival costumes with indigenous costumes 

and music parading either be 

fore or after the durbar of chiefs as 

they make their way to the durbar 

grounds,” she said. 

She added that the MTN costume 

carnival creates a unique platform to 

• Flashback: Various telecom companies display their flyers at Kwahu 

immerse revellers in the immediate 

festival environment and beyond 

through the power of digital media. 

“The Costume Carnival is a total 

consumer experience with both contemporary 

and local appeal cutting 

across segments [and] giving revellers 

the opportunity to participate in the 

festival in a unique way joining in this 

fun procession,” she explained. 

She again said MTN would reward 

subscribers randomly with airtime, souvenirs, 

and other things as they capture 

and share their carnival 

experiences under the #Kwahu things 

as they interact with the brand. 

“We will also immortalise some of 

these moments by uploading content 

from the Kwahu festival at 

mtnplay.com for those who missed out 

on the fun to share in the fun. In all, 

MTN is making it possible and encouraging 

you to capture and share your 

memorable experience with your 

friends using #kwahu things,” she said. 

Mr Patrick Kweku Ahiagble, Public 

Relation Officer (PRO) of Airtel, 

Ghana told the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE that in order to excite its customers 

this Easter, especially those 

who will be in the 

Kwahu area, Airtel 

will roll out a 

lot of promotions 

and winners 

will go 

home with lots 

of gifts. 

According to 

the PRO, because 

of the 

Easter their ‘Wo 

mere nie’ promo 

has been extended 

to enable 

other 

customers to 

join it. 

He explained 

that 

Airtel would 

call out the 

names of both 

the weekly and 

monthly winners 

in Kwahu 

and also the 

customers 

who text the 

highest 

‘Easter’ to the 

short code *477# will win a cash price 

of GH¢1,000.00 with other 

prizes. 

Hotel operators 

Almost all the major hotel and 

guest house operators are expected to 

make profit during the Easter festivity, 

as many hotels in Nkawkaw and towns 

in the Kwahu areas are fully booked, 

days before the festivities. 

Many hotel and guest house operators 

have taken the festivity as an advantage 

to make their sales by 

increasing their rates by at least 1000 % 

for a room. 

Hotel rooms that were on ordinary 

days rented for GH¢300.00, for instance, 

have been increased to 

GH¢3,000.00 with a package of breakfast, 

lunch, supper and a car for town 

ride, while an executive room that cost 

GH¢ 600.00 has also been increased to 

GH¢ 6,000.00 for a family with a package 

of breakfast, lunch, supper and 

town ride. 

The Chief Executive Officer of 

Nyarkoaba Nyarko Hotel told the 

DAILY HERITAGE that Easter is 

the season hotels make money to pay 

their staff and meet other expenses. 

According to him, a lot of taxes 

and incentives will be put on them to 

pay so after making the money it will 

go back to the government without 

making any profit. 

Taxi drivers 

Taxi drivers have also expressed optimism 

as they told the DAILY 

HERITAGE that it is their season to 

make money because patronage is already 

high, as visitors are already in 

Kwahu. 

According to the drivers, they are 

ready to serve anyone who will be willing 

to pay the amount they charge 

them. 

“If we charge you and you are not 

ready to reason with us, we will not 

compromise with them because another 

person will agree to pay,” they 

said. 

Food vendors 

Some restaurants and ‘’chop bar” 

operators in Accra have moved to 

Kwahu in the hope of having a high 

patronage of their services. 

According to Ataa Maame, a food 

vendor, she believes that business will 

be good this year compared to last 

year’s Easter because change has come 

and that the announcement on the various 

medium is very high. 

Bacchus Energy to thrill Easter revellers 

BY ROSEMOND 

BOATENG ADDAI 

BRAGHA (GH) Co. Limited 

is supporting the Excellence 

In Broadcasting 

(EIB) Network to roll out 

various activities as part of 

the Easter festivities in the 

Kwahu area. 

The EIB is using its 

outlets like Kasapa FM in 

Accra to broadcast live the 

Chelsea versus Manchester 

United match in the English 

Premier League, Agoo 

FM at Nkawkaw to organize 

a fitness walk and 

health screening and the 

DAILY HERITAGE 

newspaper to present a 

special edition on Kwahu. 

To this end, Bragha has 

assured its customers that 

it will give them the best 

of energy drink to keep 

them strong and active this 

Easter in the Kwahu area. 

Patrick Obeng-Wontumi, 

Business Development 

Director of Bragha, 

told the DAILY HER- 

ITAGE that Bacchus Energy 

Drink is a wholly 

Ghanaian-owned company 

that had been operating 

for the past 10 years in 

Ghana. 

He explained that as 

part of the company’s efforts 

to celebrate their customers 

this Easter, the 

company had reduced the 

price of the drink to enable 

everyone who will be 

present in Kwahu to enjoy 

their home-made energy 

drink. 

He said “Easter is all 

about joy, so in order to 

excite our consumers, we 

are running a promotion 

so the price of a canned 

drink is GH¢3.00.” 

Mr Obeng-Wontumi 

added that Bacchus Energy 

Drink is the latest 

high premium non-alcoholic 

beverage produced 

with Korean Ginseng extracts, 

Taurine, Royal Jelly, 

multi-vitamin B Complex, 

Inositol, apple juice, and 

other ingredients which 

are intended to provide 

you with instant energy.



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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and 

some have greatness thrust upon them — William 

Shakespeare 

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Flying everywhere; 

Why you can’t miss 

the Kwahu Easter 

Paragliding Festival 2017 

BY KOFI BAIDEN, 

JUMIA TRAVEL 

IN THE largely subtle Ghanaian 

culture, one will wonder 

where at all such a daring intrigue-coated 

idea came from. I 

am talking about the Kwahu 

Easter Paragliding Festival. 

The Kwahu Paragliding festival 

underwent the fastest metamorphosis 

to become that grand festival 

it is known for. The pomp and 

circumstances that greets this festival 

today is best experienced and 

not described. 

Ghana Tourism’s trump card 

The Kwahu Easter Paragliding 

Festival is a master tourist attractor 

to Ghana. When Easter approaches, 

certainly the 

chicks come to roost, bees 

hum-dance to the hive and 

tourists are found all over 

Kwahu. Well, Kwahu is 

money bank for the 

tourism sector of Ghana. 

If harnessed well, Kwahu 

and Paragliding can begin 

pulling back bags of what 

the colonial masters took 

from Ghana as gold. I dare 

say! 

The Town 

Kwahu area is a traveller’s 

home! Some of the 

fascinating people you will 

meet in a lifetime are the 

Kwahu people. Hospitality 

in this area is a trademark. 

Like the people, the gods in 

Kwahu must be very 

friendly too. If not, then 

they really have huge ear 

guards to protect them from all the 

noise the excitement of the Kwahu 

Easter Paragliding Festival exudes. Or 

else, their anger is just a few degrees 

from volcano erupting levels. It is sufficing 

to say that if this festival has 

been a regular yearly for over 10 years 

without a glitch, then the gods are 

comfortable with us. 

Paragliding 

Paragliding itself is a breathtaking 

activity. Unfortunately, there is no 

room for height-phobia when it 

comes to Paragliding. It is up, up, up 

all the way. This sport takes pilots and 

spectator to over 2000 feet above the 

launch. Every year, seasoned pilots 

• Paragliding has come to 

be part of Kwahu Easter 

• Some go to the Kwahu area 

during the Easter festivities 

just to try paragliding 

from 

the United States, Germany and Japan 

increase both the number of pilots 

and the excitement the experience 

brings. They call something -tandem 

passenger, hanger paraglider, solo 

pilot, the launch and so on. These are 

terms that are explained on site and 

not with this pen of mine; pardon 

me. That is not all, hiking and biking 

through the Kwahu ridge spice up the 

festival even more. 

As usual, Ghanaians will cash in 

on this once-in-a-year opportunity. 

The farms will produce some appealing 

foodstuffs which the farmers 

will not hesitate to display for sale in 

every space available in Kwahu. The 

foodstuffs, especially fruits, are soeyecatching 

that it gives a little justification 

to why both Eve and Adam were 

unable to resist the serpent temptation 

in Biblical old. 

Restaurants and Hotels in 

Kwahu are other businesses that do 

not shy away from reaping the benefits 

of this bumper season. Their best 

are offered at Easter as compared to 

other times with the year and the reason 

for this is clear. Local tour guides, 

as well as travel and tour companies, 

also do brisk business during the 

Kwahu Easter paragliding festival. 

Some hotels even go to the extent of 

creating travel packages that include a 

trip to the Kwahu Mountains. Beige 

Village Golf Resort & Spa, in 

particular, offers an unbelievable 

Easter vacation 

package in this regard. 

The Philanthropy 

The Kwahu Easter 

Paragliding Festival does not leave 

Kwahu empty. In fact, through the 

help of NGOs locally and internationally, 

various aspects of the town 

are improved. To the extent that 

some lucky students are enjoying fulltime 

scholarships from the Cloud 

base initiated Ghana Paragliding 

Fund. This is a step in the right direction, 

you will say? 

Flying everywhere 

Let us say a very big Amen to the 

17.5% reduction in the fares for local 

flights. Kudos to the Government of 

Ghana. The journey is made sweeter 

still with some of the cheapest 

flights from Jumia Travel. As if that is 

not enough, 20% and 30% vouchers 

for flights within Ghana are flying all 

over. It looks like flying will be commensurate 

of Easter this year if you 

are thinking like I am thinking. 

• Paragliders to enjoy 

more excitement at 

Kwahu Easter 

Theme for the Kwahu Easter 

Paragliding Festival 2017 

The theme for the Kwahu Easter 

paragliding Festival this year says ‘To 

maximise Ghana’s tourism potential 

to enhance the sector’s contribution 

to the economy.’ 

Why wait? Kwahu Easter Paragliding 

Festival 2017 takes place from the 

14th to the 16th of April 2017 in the 

Kwahu area Book your Kwahu hotel 

for the best rates this Easter on Jumia 

Travel. Sing with me, “I believe I can 

fly” and let’s go Paragliding!! 

Restaurants 

and hotels in 

the Kwahu area 

are other businesses 

that do 

not shy away 

from reaping 

the benefits of 

this bumper 

season



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Amakye Dede, Bisa K’Dei 

others to shake ‘Kasapa 

Kwahu Kanival’ 

BY ABIGAIL ASARE, 

THE KWAHU Easter experience is 

here again with top artistes expected 

to rock the stage during the 

‘Kasapa Kwahu Kanival’ (KKK) at 

Kwahu Obomeng in the Eastern 

Region. 

Patrons are being thrilled with fun-packed 

activities which started yesterday with the ‘Akwaaba 

Bash’ at Starboat Pub at Nkawkaw. 

The Head of Marketing at Kasapa102.5FM, 

Mr Kwabena Bediako Antwi-Dako, popularly 

known in showbiz as IBK, explained that KKK 

is a-four-day non-stop fun-packed programme 

aimed at providing entertainment to revellers 

and to also increase their mass market in the 

Kwahu area. 

He said hundreds of revellers were last year 

entertained while asserting that more had been 

put in place to increase the fun, especially with 

concerts put forth for the event, saying “last 

year’s activities were just a tip of the iceberg as 

compared to this year’s. We are ready for our listeners. 

“We are bringing on board the likes of 

Amakye Dede, Ofori Amponsah, Bisa K’Dei 

Stonebwoy, Yaa Pono, Nii Funny, Dunsin and 

Fareed. These musicians are good and promise 

to entertain our listeners with good tunes. Our 

celebrities will be available to take selfies with 

our listeners. We call it #kasapakwahueaster 

2017,” he said. 

thority) comes your way live. 

The event is brought to you by MTN 

and sponsored by Alomo Bitters, Protector 

Condom, Baachus Energy , Lizngod 

Real Estate, Extra Time, Tama Cosmetics, 

Hi Lady Virgin Intimate Wash, Best Premium 

Coconut Water and Stal-Car. 

Media Partners: Starr FM, Live FM, 

GHone TV, Agoo FM, Agoo TV, DAILY 

HERITAGE newspaper, Ultimate FM, and 

Abusua FM. 

•Amakye Dede 

•Ofori Amponsah 

• Stonebwoy 

Today’s bill 

Today’s entertainment starts from 

6:00 p.m with hiplife artistes such as 

Stonebwoy, Yaa Pono, Nii Funny, 

Dunsin and Fareed, all expected 

to light up the KKK on the 

Obomeng High Street. 

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 

15, there will be a health walk 

to be attended by some celebrities 

starting from the premises of 

Agoo FM at Nkwawkaw 

through to 

Nyarkoaba Nyarko 

Hotel at Obo. The 

starting time is 6:00 

a.m. 

Then from 10:00 a.m. 

on Sunday, April 16, your 

favourite ‘Alomo Chop Time’ 

will be live from Level 300 Pub in 

Obomeng. There will also be a highlife 

concert at Nyarkoaba Nyarko Hotel. 

A special edition of Starr FM’s famous 

weekend groove with DJ Blow (D’ Au- 

• Bisa K’Dei 

• Yaa Pono




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Sports 


•Tony Adam Adjei, Head of 

Sports, Kasapa 102.5 fm 

•Gideon Okyere Anim a.k.a 

Gattuso, Host of ‘Aben Wo 

Ha’ on Kasapa 102.5 fm 

Kasapa 102.5 fm presents 

EPL commentary live 

at Level 300 Pub 

•Jose Mourinho, 

Manchester United, 

manager 

S 

EASONED SPORTS 

journalists of Kasapa 

102.5 FM, under the 

Excellence in Broadcasting 

Network, as part 

of the Kwahu Easter celebrations, 

will on Sunday 

move out of their studios to bring to 

listeners live commentary of the English 

Premier League match between 

Chelsea and Manchester United at Level 

300 Pub at Obomeng. 

Tony Adam Adjei, known in sports 

as ‘1st Man’ and Gideon Okyere Anim, 

also known as ‘Gattuso’, who have over 

a decade wealth of experience in sports 

broadcasting, will entertain listeners 

with jokes and their sports jargons. 

‘1st Man’ will lead the ‘Blue Army’ 

while Gattuso will spearhead the ‘Red 

Devils’ at kick-off time, 3:00 p.m. 

Come and have fun and win wonderful 

prizes as the bosses of commentary 

serenade you with their rich artistry. 

Pre-match discussion starts at 2:30 

p.m. 

•Antonio Conte, 

Chelsea manager

Kwahu Project

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