Ghana: World Bank Stands Up for Peace
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Public Agenda (Accra)
8 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Yvonne Ablordeppey
To safe guard the peaceful environment existing in Ghana, the World Bank and the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Premier Productions Ghana Limited have supported a musical concert dubbed Peace concert.
The Peace Concert also known as the Peace Train consists of a management team, including Nana Adwoa Awindor (Projects Coordinator), Amandzeba Nat Brew, Nana Yaa Owusu Prempeh, Kofi Okyere Darko (The director in charge of communications) and all winners of this Year's Ghana Music Awards.
The project aims at using music as a vehicle to preach peace in all parts of the country during election years. It involves inviting knowledgeable people to speak on peace. Peace messages by the various presidential candidates are also included. Also aboard the train are the Christian Council, the Muslim Council and traditional rulers.
It nonetheless aims at uniting all the people of Ghana through music. According to the Projects Coordinator, Nana Adwoa Awindor, the project begins with a three-day workshop in Ada, where the various artistes and management team will share ideas, brainstorm on words to make up the lyrics for the peace song and generate various tunes for the song. The train will move to 16 districts across the country.
She told Public Agenda that the 16 districts were chosen based on "sensitivity nature" "and where impacts could be made."
She remarked that the objective of the project has been embraced by many governmental as well as private institutions. Notable among these institutions are UNICEF, UNDP, Ministry of Information, Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Interior.
She appealed to various corporate organizations especially those in the telecom and financial institutions to assist the peace concert, adding that for the country to be stable all hands must be on deck.
Nana Yaa Owusu Prempeh, the Managing Director of Tin-ifa Ghana Limited and a member of the management team added that peace meant, "Staying away from drugs, alcohol, and spousal abuse."
She added that the importance of this project might not be seen now, "because our future starts from now".
In conclusion, she explained that this project was not based on politics, since its logo had all the emblems of the political parties, Christian, Muslim and Traditional organizations.
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She said therefore that if the peace train comes sounding in any town or district district, no one should hesitant to board and join the train in the name of not being politically inclined.
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