Ban On Noise Making Starts Today:Krokobite Chief Urges Christian Council To Call Churches To order! 

The total ban on the drumming activities and noisemaking in the Ga State of the Greater Accra Region have scheduled traditionally to start today [Monday May 15, 2023, with call on all Divisional and District Commanders of the Police to liaise with the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDCEs) in Ga State to ensure compliance with the ban on drumming and noise making.

However, adding his voice to call was the Divisional Chief of Krokobite under the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council in the Ga South Municipality, Nii Ofei lII, who stressed the need for the Christian Council of Ghana (GCG) to, urgently ensure that the various churches in the Ga State abided by the order of this year’s ban on drumming and noise-making in Accra.

“We traditional office holders and leaders of the Ga State do generally respect the churches and their various gospel activities so we want them also to respect our traditions, customs and norms so that there will be absolute peace, harmony and unity in Ga State.”

“So we expect that the normal way of worship, drumming, the excessive noise-making which people have had cause to complain that churches within residential areas do not allow residents to have their peace of mind cease for now!”

“However this year, we have what it takes to go round to make sure that there is total silence during the period,” Nii Ofei II, said, but was quick to state that “those who flout the orders of the ban would not be spared at all.

According to the gazetted chief, it behoves the GCG to urgently advice, especially the one-man charismatic churches, to respect the customs and traditions of Gas as the practice was not fetish as perceived by some Christians.

‘We want to emphasize our call on the various churches operating within the jurisdiction of the Ga State to respect the ban on noise making and drumming in order to avoid confrontation with the Ga traditional authorities,” Nii Ofei IIl stressed.

According to the chief of Krokobite, the two groups “must show respect for one another and restrain their followers from making derogatory and inflammatory remarks about their beliefs and traditions.”

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Soireenews.com, Nii Ofei IlI, who is a member of the Ga Traditional Council (GTC), stated that the usual way of worship should be confined to the premises of churches, mosques and noise level be minimised to the barest limits possible in Kokrobite.

Nii Ofei II indicated that the period would be used to clear farms, plant crops and pray for more harvest either fishes or crops.

He said the ban on drumming cannot be made flexible despite the cosmopolitan nature of Accra.

According to him, most churches in the Ga State were disrespecting the ban because they considered the celebration of the Homowo as fetish.

He said: “Such claims are false because Homowo is an occasion used by the Gas to remember their ancestors, hoot at hunger and thank the Almighty God for providing sufficient food.”

Nii Ofei IlI urged individuals and churches who occupy the lands of the Ga State, particularly at Krokobite enclave to be mindful of their actions during the ban and remember that the Ga traditional rulers were the custodians of the land.

Nii Ofei IlI also urged the Asafo companies in Accra not to take the law into their hands.

He stressed that when someone disobeys the order of the ban such a person must be reported to the appropriate traditional quarters for an amicable resolution in order to make this year’s Homowo festival peaceful.