Make Heritage Day celebration compulsory for workers

 Dear Editor,

I want to use this platform to suggest that the celebration of Heritage Month is declared compulsory, especially for workers in state agencies.

It is very interesting watching broadcasters adorned in diverse tra­ditional regalia on our screens, tell­ing the stories of the various tribes in the country.

But away from the television sets, there is practically nothing to see in town suggesting the celebration of such an important activity.

Once in the month, we also see our school children celebrating the event by dressing to depict where they come from.

But just as was done with the Chocolate Day celebration, I wish to suggest that workers in state agencies are forced to partake in the event. Within that month, every working staff should be made to dress in African prints or ones that would show where they come from.

That, to a large extent would give people a lot of education about their ancestry and their cultural values.

I have a few friends that are Gas from the Greater Accra region but because their parents stayed in other regions and gave birth to them outside Accra, they have little or no idea about where they actually come from.

Some of these activities would go a long way to educate such people to know their real homes.

I expect the Ministry of Tourism to play an active role in the success of this exercise.

Stella Twum,

Central Region