A radio presenter and tourism curator in Koforidua, Okley Solomon, has called on the Ghana Tourism Authority to develop a slave market site at Abonsi in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region into a fully recognised tourist attraction.
Presenting a report on how the 2025 Detty December activities went in the region on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, he stressed the need for tourism in the area to be taken more seriously.
Okley Solomon told the host Kwame Dadzie that the site, which once served as a slave market, has the potential to become a major tourism product for the country.
“There is a slave market here in the region. It is called Abonsi Slave Market. The information I have is that the archeology department of the University of Ghana has been there to do their findings and have confirmed that indeed that place was a slave market because they saw some shackles and all that and gathered them to their department in Accra,” he said.
The broadcaster, popularly known as Jah Solo, therefore admonished the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts and the Ghana Tourism Authority to pay attention to the site.
“So what they did for Assin Manso Slave Market, let them do same for Abonsi,” he said.
Abonsi is a Guan-speaking town located near the boundary to Shai Osudoku, Adukrom and Asesieso.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Gilbert Abeiku Santana, who was also on the programme, said the government remains committed to creating and promoting more tourism products across the country.
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