The Paramount Queen mother, Mamaga Ametor Hoebuadzu II of Alavanyo traditional area in Hohoe municipality of the Volta region is to celebrate her fifteen years as Queen of Alavanyo, aimed to enhance quality health services in the area.

Mamaga Ametor ascended the stool as the 2nd "Nyornufia" (Queen mother) of Alavanyo traditional area in 2005 and has since ruled over eight Alavanyo communities, Dzogbedze, Agoxoe, Kpeme, Wudidi, Abehenease, among the rest.

The anniversary themed " Fostering peace and development through better maternal health care delivery," according to the Queen mother, is a move aimed to tackle poor maternity services in the communities, thus she will officially commission a maternity facility she built at Alavanyo Dzogbedze on Saturday, 22 February 2020.

" if you don't have a good place for delivery it becomes a problem in the future, a lot of researchers have gone through all those things and it shows that it is true" hence the need to promote better maternal health care delivery"

Pregnant women in the Alavanyo area travel to Hohoe or Kpando to access maternity care, which sometimes claim lives of the unborn babies due to the proximity of the health centre.

Prior to the main durbar, Mamaga Ametor has organized English, Mathematics and Science quize for the various basic schools in the area on December 10, 2019 where some forty pupils between the ages of seven to thirteen participated.

Mamaga Ametor said, another chapter of the celebration is to partner with the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Ghana Education Service (GES) and the National Peace Council among other corporate organisations to engage young people in the area on how to ensure peaceful coexistence with ttheir neighbouring community, Nkonya.

She said “the time has come for another star to shine on Alavanyo, we should leave past behind even the hatred among ourselves, we should put it behind and develop our own community.”
Activities outlined on the day include; cooking competition, clean-up exercise, free health screening, sport activities, music concerts, and expecting some heads of government to climax a durbar on 22 February.

Contributor: Albert Kuzor