Deputy Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, Kofi Osei Ameyaw
Deputy Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, Kofi Osei Ameyaw,
says the Ministry remains committed to the campaign to re-unite all
Africans. This, he said would be done through giving more attention to
the Emancipation Day Celebration to bring Africans and their relations
in the Diaspora together as one people with one destiny. Mr.
Osei-Ameyaw said this at the celebration of Emancipation Day at Assin
Praso in the Central Region. The celebration which is done every year
in all the slave routes in Ghana is to create awareness about the evil
nature of slavery.
Mr. Osei Ameyaw expressed concern about the way the world today still suffers from other forms of slavery and servitude. He mentioned oppression, human rights abuses and other blatant forms of disregard for the lives and freedom of some people in the world. According to him, it has come to government’s notice that even in Ghana, some communities under the guise of being poor sell their children into forced labour. He therefore appealed to Ghanaians to remember the pain, sadness and sorrow that slavery brings and say never again should any form of slavery happen in the world.
The Omanhene of ‘Agogo’ Nana Akuoku Sarpong, noted that, the greatest tragedy that took place in Africa is the slave trade which took away the human resource base of Africa. He said, Emancipation Day should not only be celebrated seen as an occasion to reflect the past.
