Sekondi-Takoradi MCE entreats young people to uphold Ghanaian culture in high esteem during Heritage Month – Skyy Power FM

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Abdul Issah Mumin is entreating young Ghanaians to uphold their culture, tradition and cuisine in high esteem.

Speaking at the Ghana Heritage Month organised by the Ghana Museum and Monuments Board in collaboration with STMA, WRCC and GES at Fort Orange in Sekondi on Thursday, March 9, Mr Mumin entreated young people to take their culture and tradition to wherever they may find themselves and prioritise made in Ghana products.

He said, “As young people, you should develop a taste for your local cuisine and hold your culture in high esteem wherever you find yourself in the world.”

“Whenever you have the opportunity, use it to showcase your culture, be it food or fashion, eat more local dishes like fufu, ampesi, gari, akyeke and desist from eating pizza and other foreign foods that can make you sick.”

The Western Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, Mr Kwesi Essel Blankson speaking at the program said plans are underway to renovate Fort Orange in Sekondi to tell the true history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

He said only part of the history concerning the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is being told and the Fort Orange after its completion will expose more concerning the event.

Mr said, “Whenever they are talking about the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, they always talk about what happened on the land and in the castles but not what happened on the ship.”

“We will use Fort Orange to tell the whole history and let everybody know what happened on the ships as well when they visit Fort orange for history.”