The chiefs and people of the Bole Traditional Area in the Savannah region today Sunday 8th November, 2020 celebrated the 2020 Damba festival in a spectacular style amidst praises from stakeholders for building peace in the area.
In a colourful ceremony to climax this year’s Damba festival at Bole, the Bolewura, Sarfo Kutuge Feso (I ) described it as a moment worth celebrating and stock taking of the past years and a year of many resolutions for the future.
This year marks the second Damba festival of his ascension to the Bole skin where all the chiefs, stakeholders and people of Bole are behind him and actively participated in the celebration of the festival.
The 2020 Damba festival was on the theme; ’Promoting Culture, Peace and Development, the role of the Youth of Bole.
The Paramount Chief of the Bole Traditional Area also used the occasion to emphasize his commitment to sustaining peace in Bole and also asked all and sundry to join him in the emblem ’No more boundary or division among the people of Bole”.
Tingawura Alhaji Samson, delivering a speech on behalf of Bolewura Sarfo Kutuge Feso (I) thanked the overlord of Gonjaland , Yogbon wura Tuntumba Boresa (I) for his contribution towards sustaining peace in Bole.
He did not mince words by commending the ever courageous chiefs and queen mothers, royals and most importantly the youth of Bole and expressed the hope that next year they will be able to meet more united and developmentally-oriented people.
Alhaji Samson said Bolewura is committed to the development of the area and for that matter an educational fund has been established with a seed capital of Two hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHC 200.000).
He said the peaceful co-existence in Bole does not only bring the people of Bole together but it also ensures sustainable development to benefit the people.
“The Bolewura believes that when there is education, peace, unity and more importantly reconciliation there can be development”.
Citations were given to key individuals such as the former president John Dramani Mahama, Hon. Alhaji Yusif, MP for Bole-Bamboi, Hon. Salifu Adam Briamah and many others for playing a vital roles during the chieftaincy dispute in the Bole Traditional Area.
Bolewura also use the Damba festival as an opportunity to advise the youth not to allow politians to use them to cause mayhem before, during and after the 2020 December elections.
Source: yagbonradioonline/Abdul Fataw Diwura
