The chief priest for the La Traditional Area, Nii Yemo Obroni VII has blamed Ghana’s worsening power crisis and economic issues on the ban on libation at Independence Day celebrations.
Government has since 2010 prevented fetish priests from pouring libation at national events including the Independence Day celebrations which is mainly held at the Independence Square.
According to Nii Yemo Obroni VII, who is the La Kpa Wolumo, “when former President Kwame Nkrumah was alive, he never joked with pouring of libation.”
“Now see where we have gotten to, electricity crisis, economic issues among others,” he stated on Adom Dwaso Nsem on Tuesday.
Nii Yemo Obroni VII insisted that “we have to revisit the libation pouring,” because “there is nothing wrong with it…our ancestors have suffered for the nation and we usually use such occasions to call on them, so there is nothing wrong it.”
The Chief Priest was speaking in relation to a planned “Dumsor vigil” by some celebrities in the country.
The vigil is aimed at expressing their displeasure about the erratic power supply in the country.
The leaders of the Ga Traditional Area have petitioned the Greater Accra Police to compel the organizers of the vigil to consider postponing it because it is being held at a time drumming and noise making have been banned.
But the La Traditional Area has given the organizers the green light explaining that the area earmarked for the vigil “is not part of Ga Mashie land” adding that the La area has not begun the ban on drumming and noise making.
Ghana is undergoing a painful load shedding exercise following three years of erratic power supply in the country.
Various companies and businesses have folded up in recent times due to the worsening power crisis.
Aside the power crisis, the country has also entered a bailout programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed at elevating Ghana from its economic predicaments.
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