The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board has expressed readiness to showcase a documentary on the tourist site, the Avakpe Protective Mountains in the Volta region.

The purpose is to help attract investors and NGOs to aid in the revamping of the tourist site to improve Ghana’s tourism.

This comes after Joy Prime aired a documentary on the depleting nature of the sacred mountain on Prime Morning.

In an interview with Roselyn Felli, the Principal Education Officer of the Board, Samuel Acquaah mentioned that the site has been discovered and requires development, which the Board is ready to support.

Explaining on the show, he suggested that "it’s still at the discovery stage. This is the time to move it to the next stage, which is the development stage for partners to come on board to really develop it."

"For the museum, we have temporary exhibition spaces. This documentary that you’ve done, we can even exhibit it for a week or a month to introduce the public to the place."

As an institution under the Ministry of Tourism, Art, and Culture, its duty is to preserve Ghana’s tourism and cultural heritage by exhibiting various tourist sites in museums across the country.

Also known as the "War Stone" historically, the site was active and useful, as some music videos were shot there until the COVID-19 breakout in 2020.

Since the emergence of the virus, the site has not been functional as tourists across the world have stopped visiting the place.

Located at Mafi Avakpedome, in the Central Tongu District, the Avakpe Protective Mountains is a family of mountains that won wars for the Tongus in the pre-colonial era and other unnamed rocky mountains forming it. 

"The Mountain was initially used as a sacred area, a fetish ground. In the olden days, our great-grandfathers used the place as a battleground. So literally, the name Avakpe means "War Stone."

According to the documentary, it is usually celebrated every Easter Monday.

Speaking on the show, Mr. Acquaah entreated the community leaders and stakeholders to consistently organize events at the site, even after Easter celebrations, to enhance the prominence of the mountains.

This, according to him, will help the Ghana Tourism Authority and the Museums and Monuments Board in promoting it.

He believes the site can be sustained if the owners understand the benefits that can be derived from it.