SHEBERE DAZZLES AT FIESTA PEACE DO -by Nkrabeah Effah Dartey

The day was Thursday 29th October 2020 and the venue was the plush executive FIESTA ROYALE HOTEL at North Dzorwulu. The bill was the outdooring of BASTIONS OF PEACE by the latest NGO in town, the Stakeholders of Peace International.

In Europe and America, local government is so strong that “national elections” are almost ceremonial, because it is almost always business as usual, except changes in the actors.

Unfortunately here in Africa, elections are a different ball game altogether. The stakes are so high that sadly to say in Africa most elections are recipes for blood.

And so here in Ghana the current subject on the lips of everybody today is PEACE. Let us have peaceful elections. Just go and vote, PEACEFULLY and let us move on, whether under NPP or NDC.

The latest platform on the media landscape is the STAKEHOLDERS OF PEACE INTERNATIONAL, a group registered at the Registrar General’s Department as a Non Governmental Organization, with only one aim: to pursue the maintenance of PEACE before during and after every election, both in Ghana and beyond.

The brain pan of the NGO, the directing base, foundation rock of the NGO are called BASTIONS OF PEACE and on Thursday 29th October 2020 these Bastions were outdoored at a simple but colorful event at Fiesta Royale Hotel in Accra.

The first BASTION of PEACE to arrive is the whole Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana Rev Dr BOAFO followed almost closely by the Omanhene of Assin Kushea, His Majesty Nana Prah Agyensain, believed to be the younger brother of the famous gold magnate, Sam Jonah. His Majesty entered the hall escorted by an assistant who placed some cushion on the chair at the High Table for him.

By contract, His Majesty Nana Ewusie, also a paramount Chief and National Vice President of the National House of Chiefs arrived, very simply in a smock over trousers, almost like a Visiting Lecturer in a University.

A versatile businessman, J A Biney representing the Association of Ghana Industries, Nana Osei Bonsu, a Chief and many more distinguished sons and daughters of our motherland Ghana were on hand, to be outdoored as BASTIONS OF PEACE.

At exactly 1100 hours, Most Rev Dr Boafo the Methodist Pastor ushered the programe into the hands of Almighty God and straight away, yours truly, acting as interim General Secretary of the NGO delivered a short statement, extolling the benefits of peace and the terrible consequences of civil strife, civil conflict and disorder.

“In the absence of peace, the life of man is nasty, brutish and short” I declared.

All the Bastions of Peace present made commitments to maintain the peace, stressing the need for a peaceful orderly environment to pursue out different vocations.

With his face looking very worried BASTION J A Biney asked a grim question: “How can our industries operate in an atmosphere of constant violence and breakdown of law and order? Everybody was quiet.

The event was so massively patronized by the media that at one point the MC Enoch Hammond announced that one network was beaming the event live on satellite for the whole world to watch – the outdooring of BASTIONS OF PEACE.

On hand to grace the occasion was the SHEBERE MUSIC and DANCE GROUP, made up of three dancers, including one female, Patience Ankrah who dazzled all around with spectacular staccato steps amidst reggae – like sound beats.

Patience Ankrah, naturally endowed with excess flesh at all the right places in a woman’s figure moved her torso with such grace that at one point I observed that all eyes were focused on her as she danced to the northern musical rhythmic beats.

After the programme I cornered one of the Directors, Sarah and asked her – where has this cultural group been hiding in Ghana? Whereupon with a broad smile she replied: “oh Captain we have been around for 8 years, based in Dansoman….”

PEACE is an acronym for Perform Every Act Carefully Everyday – PEACE!!!!

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