Dzolokpuita (V/R), April 13, GNA-The 16 traditional areas constituting Ho-West have established the Congress of Ho-West Paramount Chiefs as a platform for deliberations and pooling their human and material resources for rapid development. Osie Adja Tekpor VII, Paramount Chief of Avatime and Chairman of the Congress, disclosed this to newsmen at a meeting of the Congress at Dzolokpuita last Sunday.

He said chiefs need to create platforms at all levels for deliberations among themselves and with their subjects to identify their potentials, challenges and rally collectively to push through their aspirations.

He said many citizens from the Ho-West area were willing to help in diverse ways towards the development of the area but could not find the rallying point to do so.

Osie Adja Tekpor said the Congress with Professor Senyo Dzamefe of the E.P. University College as General-Secretary, has subcommittees on infrastructure and finance, information and publicity and fundraising and an Executive Committee. He said a grand durbar of Chiefs and people of the 16 traditional areas would be organized soon to consolidate their new found unity of purpose.

Osie Adja Tekpor said the award of contract for the construction of an all-weather road from Bame to Dzolokpuita through to Kpedze has become their 93monument of the strength of collective action and unity" after years of individual efforts had failed to move successive governments to tackle the road.

The chiefs met with the contractor on Sunday to discuss issues relating to the execution of the contract.

Togbe Agbotu II of Hlefi, called on government to consider Ho-west for a new district because the current Ho Municipal area of which Ho-West is part is unwieldy for rapid development. Togbe Agbotu, who is chairman of the Finance sub-committee of the Congress, said a levy of five Ghana cedis each on citizens living outside home and two Ghana cedis each on every citizen at home has been instituted to raise at least 60,000 Ghana Cedis to pursue its development agenda.

He appealed to all citizens from the 16 traditional areas to spend this Easter at home and pay their levies. 13 April 11