The Kyebi Akwadumhene in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council of the Eastern Region, Berima Pobi Asomani III, has advised parents residing in mining catchment areas to prioritize their wards’ education over mining practices, ensuring that they go to school every day before embarking on their daily activities.
He underscores the importance of education and states that education is the cornerstone of every developed country and plays a vital role in the modern world.
His advice came on the back of what he described as “very disgusting” behavior among parents in mining areas across the country who don’t value their children’s education, therefore leaving them astray to engage in mining activities at a very young age.
Berima Asomani III attested that poverty and hardship are contributing factors to this canker, allowing their children, who are supposed to be in classrooms learning, to engage in such activities.
Nonetheless, the traditional authority stated that under no circumstances should parents underrate education in their wards’ lives.
The Akwadumhene cited that gone are the days when parents who knew the benefits and importance of education sold their clothes or engaged in farming activities to sell their farm produce and use the money to support their children’s education to become the breadwinners of the family.
“These moves have produced a lot of great men and women and have contributed to the success of this country and those parents in the mining communities can emulate it and also give their children a better future rather than allowing them to engage in mining activities that do not have any positive impact on their lives,” he added.
Berima Pobi Asomani made this known when celebrating his first Ohum Kan Festival at Kyebi Akwadum Palace on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
As the custom demands, whenever Okyeman celebrates the Ohum Kan Festival, all the divisional chiefs and the queen mothers present firewood as their gift to Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin.
So during the celebration of the Kyebi Akwadum Ohum Kan Festival, the schoolchildren in the community did the same thing for Akwadumhene, Berima Pobi Asomani III, and also gifted them something to show his heartfelt gratitude to the schoolchildren.
After exchanging gifts with them, Berima Pobi Asomani realized that most of the schoolchildren’s uniforms were tattered, while others were very old and did not look nice on them.
He then signed a cheque of Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis and gave it to the headteachers to use to sew new uniforms for them to enable them to attend school every day.
Meanwhile, he also adopted three best-performing schoolchildren from the various basic schools in the community to sponsor their education to the tertiary level.
He indicated that this is what he can also offer to support and put smiles on their faces, and to make education attractive to them.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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