{"id":347252,"date":"2017-08-23T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347252"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:49:55","slug":"ledzekuku-mp-screens-constituents-ahead-of-teshie-homowo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347252","title":{"rendered":"Ledzekuku MP screens constituents ahead of Teshie Homowo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku constituency, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has organized a medical screening outreach programme for his constituents.<\/p>\n

The MP who is a medical doctor himself with his team screened over 700 people and also gave them drugs for free.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Dr. Okoe Boye said the exercise was aimed at ensuring that his constituents were healthy enough to partake in the upcoming Homowo festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing healthy is very important and as we celebrate our festival I think one way to ensure that my constituents are healthy is to organise this exercise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Homowo is a key milestone in the history of the Ga people, as it recounts their migration and reveals their agricultural success.<\/p>\n

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According to Ga oral tradition, a severe famine broke out among the people during their migration to present-day Accra and they were inspired by the famine to embark on massive food production, which eventually yielded them a bumper harvest which ended their hunger.<\/p>\n

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So with great joy, they decided to set aside a day to \u2018hoot at hunger\u2019 thus the Homowo celebration.<\/p>\n

Prior to the festival, the traditional authorities place a ban on drumming and noisemaking in parts of the capital city, Accra.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Philip Nii Lartey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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