THE chiefs and people of Leklebi Traditional Area in the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region and those in Lavie in the Republic of Togo have sealed a common bond of brotherhood at Leklebi–Duga.
At a joint news conference at the weekend to launch the commemoration of the beginning of a biannual festival known as “Leklebi-Lavie Agbonuto Za” at Leklebi Duga, the Chairman of the Leklebi Lavie Agbonuto Za Secretariat, Mr Morris Alfred Fie, said the people of Leklebi and Lavie were one people.
The conference was to renew the affiliation between the people of Leklebi and Lavie who left Notsie during the exodus of Ewe groups in the 15th Century.
The festival, to be held on rotational basis, starts from Thursday, November 6, this year, with a grand durbar to climax the occasion on November 8 at Leklebi Duga, is purely a cultural and development-oriented affair. It marks the homecoming of the chiefs and people of Lavie to to their kinsmen at Leklebi.
Mr Fie said the people of Leklebi visited their kinsmen in 1979 with a delegation of 305 people and there had been contacts between the two peoples since 1980.
He said the people of Lavie, therefore, decided to reciprocate the visit of their kinsmen at Leklebi this year.
According to Mr Fie, both kinsmen migrated from Notsie through other places before settling at Lakledzi, a distance of about 28 kilometres from Leklebi, where the Lavie were resident at the moment.
“This identification was confirmed through various similarities in names such as Biaku, Vukey, Deh, Hehemeku, Atsutse and many others, which are found in both traditional areas,” he stated.
Mr Fie said in order to execute the programme successfully, all citizens of Leklebi, both at home and abroad, had been levied GH¢5 or more.
The money, he said, must be paid before the end of October, this year
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