Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

We don't need a speaker of parliament who always needs an ambulance- Asiedu Nketia( General Mosquito)

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress Johnson Asiedu Nketia popularly known as General Mosquito has tossed shots after Parliament casted a ballot Hon. Alban Bagbin as the new Speaker of Parliament. 

Johnson Asiedu Nketia


As per him, Ghana at this stage need not bother with a Speaker of Parliament who goes around with an emergency vehicle following him yet needs a solid and vivacious individual. 

Asiedu Nketia talking in a meeting expressed that Alban Bagbin has essential information and experience as a Parliamentarian for quite a while and accepts that whenever decided in favor of, will work admirably in Parliament.


He said “We don’t need a speaker who you’ve to carry into his car and out of his car. Let’s be serious. We don’t need a speaker who always needs an ambulance”.

Voting in the parliamentary chamber have seen Hon. Alban Bagbin as winner. Hon. Alban Bagbin is currently the speaker of the 8th parliament of Ghana.