{"id":364219,"date":"2017-10-23T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364219"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:50:38","slug":"vregion-chief-bemoans-effect-of-disputes-on-kente-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/vregion-chief-bemoans-effect-of-disputes-on-kente-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"V\/Region: Chief bemoans effect of disputes on Kente Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Paramount Chief of Agortime Traditional Area, Nene Nuer Keteku III, has said that his reign would not allow chieftaincy disputes to mar the beauty of their annual Kente Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The paramount chief noted with regret the recent incidents that led to the cancellation of the grand durbar that climaxes the annual Kente Festival of Agortime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;UUVcCI0Aq4GuACGwhY306Q1WVjCXMAFa&#8221;]Nene Nuer Keteku said the entire Paramountcy was taken aback by the resurrection of a chieftaincy dispute which they all thought had been fully resolved and consolidated by a feast held at his palace earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said although the chieftaincy institution is generally revered as custodian of the peoples\u2019 culture, the overgrowing interests of certain individuals in the system is crushing its core mandates and derailing efforts that promote relevant elements of culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe festival is for the youth, and if we don\u2019t empower the youth to take charge, it won\u2019t help us. All festivals that depend on Chiefs are bedeviled with challenges. Other traditional areas praise us for not leaving the organization of our festival in the hands of chiefs because of the recent chieftaincy dispute in the area, people are riding on it to cause troubles in the area which I would not allow\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The visibly disappointed chief has apologized to patrons of the festival for the inconvenience caused, and pledged to as a matter of urgency resolve the impasse among his sub chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He therefore warned his subjects not to adulterate the beauty of the Kente festival with needless chieftaincy disputes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said his outfit would continue to preserve and protect the festival, and would not allow chieftaincy issues to affect the Kente festival, and would continue to empower the youth to fully take charge of its organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhether chieftaincy or no chieftaincy, we did not back this festival with chieftaincy matters. At the helm of affairs, the planning of the festival is put in the hands of the youth, and they are doing marvelously well. So long as I live, we would not entertain anyone who brings chieftaincy into the festival.\u00a0 The youth would continue to organize the festival\u201d. he maintained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He commended the current members of the planning committee led by Mr. Eddie Akotey for bringing innovations into the festival and taking it a notch higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe present committee did marvelously well because we have just been celebrating the festival without any results. But now, the palace is being constructed, the kente market construction is in progress; meaning we are now gaining something from the efforts of the present committee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The grand durbar of the annual festival, which sees patrons converge\u00a0on Kpetoe to celebrate the beautiful Ghanaian cloth and promote the area\u2019s culture, was called off at the eleventh hour for reasons organizers gave as the failure of the Paramount Chief, Nene Nuer Keteku, to resolve an outstanding chieftaincy dispute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The abrupt cancellation the planning committee said, was to safeguard peace and security in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Chairman of the planning committee, told<strong> Citi News<\/strong> they are working closely with the chiefs and elders of the traditional area to bring a lasting solution to the problems to avert future disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: King Nobert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paramount Chief of Agortime Traditional Area, Nene Nuer Keteku III, has said that his reign would not allow chieftaincy disputes to mar the beauty of their annual Kente Festival. 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