By Jerry Azanduna, GNA
Bawku (UE), June 18, GNA - The Chief and People of the Moshie ethnic group in Bawku have marked their annual Buud Yele festival with calls on the youth to channel their energies into vocational training.
The proposal was necessitated by the advantages in vocational training, which is proven to support skilled persons improve on their livelihoods.
The youth was further urged to venture into vocational training to create employment for themselves instead of relying on government for employment and engaging in menial jobs.
Alhaji Moro Kodima, Chairman for the Buud Yele Association who made the call during the celebration of the fifth edition of the Buud Yele festival in Bawku in the Upper East Region, added that the youth were the driving force in national development.
He reminded the youth of the dangers associated with drugs and told them that indulging in vices such as drug abuse including the use of tramadol, armed robbery, and other hard substances would affect them negatively, which would invariably affect their contributions to national development.
Alhaji Kodima called on parents to monitor and supervise their children in all aspects, so that they would not go way ward.
Mr Patrick Adakudugu a spokesperson for the Bawku Naba, Naba Asigri Abugragoe Azoka ll, Paramount Chief of the Bawku Traditional Area, reminded the people of the importance of festivals and urged all to drum home peace messages so as to cooperate and maintain the peace being enjoyed in the area for development.
He encouraged the youth to be ambassadors of peace and avoid violence and said violence does not augur well for the development of the area, adding that unity was the only tool to fight poverty and disease, which has been the enemy to the area for ages.
Alhaji Ibrahim Abilla, a Deputy Coordinating Director at the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council who read a speech on behalf of Madam Patience Paulina Abayage, Upper East Regional Minister, commended the people for their role in the fight against open defecation, sanitation, and the unwavering efforts at minimizing alcohol abuse in the area.
Alhaji Abilla said it was commendable to note that the people of Bawku had demonstrated patriotism over the years through the support of various governments and their programmes, and indicated that government was committed to ensure that the existing peace was maintained.
He stressed on the need for the youth to eschew vices such as uncultured attitudes including disrespect for authority, and focus at attaining responsible lives to overcome the breakdown of moral fabric of society, which had brought about increasing teenage pregnancies and school drop-outs, incidences of HIV and AIDS, and crime among others.
The festival was characterized by drumming and dancing including Wariba and Weliga dance from Burkina Faso, Damba from the Mamprusi ethnic group and the Mole Dance from the Moshie tribe in Bawku.
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