Manso Slave Market to be improved to attract tourists
Assin Manso (Central Region) 05 June 2003 - The Ministry of
Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City is to improve facilities at the
Assin Manso Slave Market, Slave Cemetery and Slave River (Donko Nsuo) to
attract more tourists to the area.
Under the programme a museum, information centre and a
chapel would be built while a site would be cleared for dignitaries visiting
the place to plant trees.
The Sector Minister, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, said this on
Tuesday when he visited the Market, Cemetery and the Slave River. The
slaves had their bath in the Slave River before they were sent to the market
for re-sale to buyers from the new world.
During PANAFEST and Emancipation Day celebrations Africans
in the Diaspora visit the area.
The Minister, who was on a two-day tour of tourist sites in
the Central Region, also visited the Assin Praso European Cemetery and slave
mass grave at the outskirts of the town and Kakum National Park.
He also visited the Wassa Domama Rock Shrine in the Daboase
District of the Western Region where three huge rocks each measuring about 30
metres long and 25 metres high with a fourth one measuring about 32 metres long
covering the top to create space underneath that can accommodate about 50
people.
A spokesman for the committee on the shrine told newsmen
that between January and May this year 123 tourists both foreign and local had
visited the site.
He said the bad nature of the road from the town to the site
discouraged people from making a second visit and, therefore, appealed to the
government to improve the road.
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