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Djetse Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku III, Paramount Chief of Ada, has called for prudent measures to ensure safe eco-tourism and water sports along on the Volta River at Ada. He made the call when he met with stakeholders in the tourism sector at Ada following the reported deaths of several revelers and the mysterious disappearance of Hip-life musician Castro, with his friend Janet Bandu, on the river around Azizanya. Nene Akuaku asked that revelers should be prevented from swimming in the river during high tide and also every passenger in a boat or canoe crossing to the Ada overbank communities should use life jacket. �A special monitoring boat should be placed along the Volta River to supervise water sporting activities,� he said. The Ada overlord asked the management of the various hotels along the riverfront to provide lifeguards to guests who would want to cruise, warning that, �anyone who rejects a safety tip or caution should not be allowed to cruise and anybody who wants to use any water sporting equipment should be first examined before the equipment released to him.� Nene Akuaku entreated the management of beach resorts and hotels to ensure that their clients conform to the directives as they furnished them with detailed background information about the pleasures and dangers on the river. Nene Akuaku asked that safety tips be printed and pasted on notice boards at the hotels. Several people have been reported missing on and along the Volta River at Ada lately. The drowning of some students of Ada Senior High School, a staff of Dredging International Construction- builders of the Ada Sea Defense Wall, a fisherman around Wokumagber and some other cases were highlighted recently, after Mr Theophilus Tagoe, alias Castro, vanished on the river.