Annual Mepe Afenorto Festival Is The Most Well-Planned In North Tongu --Okudzeto Ablakwah proclaims
The young astute politician maintained that he has been attending many festivals in some recognized traditional areas in the district but the beauty nature for which the organisers planned to organize the various activities marking the Mepe annual Afenorto is very attractive and most colourful.
Freeman Koryekpor 
MEMBER Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, has stated that annual Nepe Afenorto is the most greatest, peacefully and nicely planned festival in the whole Tongu North District.
The young astute politician maintained that he has been attending many festivals in some recognized traditional areas in the district but the beauty nature for which the organisers planned to organize the various activities marking the Mepe annual Afenorto is very attractive and most colourful.
Honourable Okudzeto-Ablakwa made the commendation when he joined chiefs and people of Mepe Traditional Area on Saturday August 5, 2023 to round up the celebration of this year’s 67th annual Afenorto Festival which was held under the theme; “Together In Peace and Development.”
The Afenorto festival meaning a period of rest at home is the traditional festival of the Chiefs and people of Mepe Traditional area which is celebrated annually to renew the sense of oneness of the people.
It also provides a unique opportunity for reunions with the extended family and friends.
Addressing the chiefs and people at a colourful and grand durbar held at the Mepe Presby School Park, to climax this year’s celebration, Honourable Okudzeto-Ablakwa thanked Mepe Development Association (MDA) for doing a great job by way of organizing a successful, peaceful and a colourful festival for the chiefs and people of Mepe.
"I am always proud of chiefs and the members of the festival planning commitee for doing a great job in organizing this year's historical event," the MP praised.
Mr Ablakwa called for the injection of fresh and new ideas into the celebration to the advantage and enhancement of the lives of the people.
The MP added that culture and tradition were not relics of the past, but tools for development so that people can have a better way of living.
The lawmaker for the North Tongu stressed the need for the chiefs and people of Mepe to continue to celebrate this annual festival to let their children celebrate their cultural identity, as "we also press for innovation and transformation.
Mr Ablakwa urged individuals, corporate institutions and organizations to take advantage of the festival to support the development agenda of the area.
He appealed to investors to make Mepe an investment destination and urged the youth to continue to develop their capacities to the development and upliftment of the area.
Mincing no works, Honourable Okudzeto-Ablakwa indicated his commitment to continue to work hard with the chiefs and other traditional rulers in the area to bring the needed developmental projects and programmes to Mepe and its adjoining communities.
He showcased some of the social and infrastructure intervention developmental projects in the areas of health, education, road networks, market development, water and sanitation, scholarships scheme, youths and sport, social welfare he has personally lobbied to be brought to the various electoral areas within the constituency since he represented the constituents in the Parliament.
The hard working MP disclosed that the Tongu District Health Director has confirmed to him that the contractors are on the sites to start the construction of the new Community Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds at Workpoe and Torgome to help enhance the health delivery system of the people in these areas.
The MP blasted the current government of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for mismanagement of the national economy which has brought severe hardship to the people in the country.
He described the NPP under President Akufo-Addo as bad mangers of national economy noting that the next the NDC. government under former President John Dramani Mahama would come to revive the national economy for Ghanaians to make Ghana a good place to stay to do businesses.
"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia and Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Addo and other top gurus of the NPP have destroyed the Ghana economy.
...that is why we the NDC would be chasing the NPP out next year so that former President John Dramani Mahama would come to the power to restore the national economy to bring the hope to Ghanaians. When the former President John Dramani Mahama wins the election and come to power, he will work to bring new industries and developments to the North Tongu District and Volta Region as whole," he stated.
He said the next NDC government under His Excellency John Dramani Mahama is surely to come back to revive the economy and put Ghana back on the right path so that we shall get out our new roads and transform the Volta.
Our aims of bringing developments would not be the verbal developments like the promise President Akufo-Ado made in 2016 to give every constituency one million dollars to facilitate the rapid development of the constituencies, but the NPP led Akufo-Addo administration has woefully failed to deliver.
"Ours are going to be practical and complete development which would be very effective on the grounds to help transform the lives of Ghanaians," the NDC MP reaffirmed.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his campaign in the 2016 general elections, promised Ghanaians that if voted into power, he would roll out a programme that would give every constituency one million dollars to facilitate the rapid development of the constituencies but he failed.
