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UPPER EAST HAS CAPACITY TO HOST EVENTS – MINISTER

UPPER EAST HAS CAPACITY TO HOST EVENTS – MINISTER
 
The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, says the Region has standard hotels and event centres with the capacity to host high profile dignitaries, national summits, festivals and conferences.
He, therefore, called on Ministries, event organizers and Africans in the diaspora to consider hosting programmes in the Region, which was also endowed with tourist sites and other recreation facilities.
Hon. Yakubu said this at the Pikworo Slave Camp in Paga, in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Region to mark this year’s 2023 PANAFEST and Emancipation Day Celebration.
The programme was on the theme: “Reclaiming the African Family: Confronting the Past to Face the Challenge of the 21st Century.”
Hon Yakubu said the PANAFEST and Emancipation Day Celebration was a journey that celebrated the diversity and resilience of the African continent with deeper understanding of the shared struggles and success of Africans across the globe.
He noted that the choice of venue for the celebration was not a coincidence as the Region was home to several historical sites, adding that it host the Museum and Monuments for the entire Northern sector of the country, where the cultural material heritage was preserved.
He said to boost tourism, government under the ‘Obaatapa Project’ renovated the Pikworo Centre to keep the history of slavery alive and further boost the local economy in the Region.
The Regional Director of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mr. Wisdom Ahadzi said Emancipation marked the abolition of chattel slavery on the British Colonies in 1834 as an annual observation in Ghana in 1988.
He said the celebration was to commemorate the resistance and liberation struggles of people in the diaspora against enslavement and the violation of their human rights.
He further explained that PANAFEST on the other hand was a cultural event held in Ghana every two years for Africans and people of African descent to promote and enhance Unity, Pan-Africanism and development of the African continent.