Apart from the Slave Market, Slave Cemetery and the Slave Wells and Bath, the East Gonja municipality in the Savannah Region can boast of numerous untapped tourism sites.
One of the untapped sites is the congruence where the Black Volta River merges with the White Volta River.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Kasim Yazid Rabiu, made these revelations when the team from the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts and its agencies, paid the curtesy call on him at Salaga.
The call was to inform the Assembly of the beginning of the 2025 Emancipation and Panafest celebrations since Salaga was the epicenter of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Salaga had a Slave Market, Slave Cemetery and Slave Wells and Bath during the era.
Mr. Yazid said “Salaga is known for tourism but development of our potential is a challenge. We have a lot of areas that we can showcase and I think ones the big men are here; they will help us showcase our potentials and we will see how we can develop them”.
“Especially, when you go to the Abromasi area, we have a very big facility there that we can tap. It will be a very important source of revenue not to the Municipality alone to the entire nation because it will invite foreign tourist.”
The MCE said “we have the congruence where the White Volta merged the Black Volta and when you fetch the White Volta and pour it into the Black Volta, it will return and when you fetch the Black and pour it into the White Volta, it will also return. They won’t mix so it will come back. So, all those things can be marketed for people to come and to see.”
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GTA, Maame Efua Houadjeto, whose speech was read by the Deputy CEO in charge of Marketing and Special Duties, Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana, pledged to work with the East Gonja Municipal Assembly to identify and develop any untapped tourist sites.
He explained that the collaboration will harness the potential of these untapped tourist sites for development and economic promotion.
“I can promise you that the GTA will work with the East Gonja MCE to ensure that the untapped tourist sites are identified and harnessed for development and economic promotion. We will also identify all tourist destinations that hold success for revenue mobilization in the country.”
Mr. Aggrey said “these are part of the visions of the President John Dramani Mahama and we are going to ensure these visions become reality”.
By Timothy Antw-Otoo|OnuaNews
