Msawam, Mar. 10, GNA - The chiefs and people of two farming communities near Nsawam in the South Akwapim District have appealed to the Ghana Electricity Company and the South Akwapim District Assembly to assist them with electricity poles.

The communities are Akwamu number one and Akwamu number two. They made the appeal at a fund-raising harvest in aid of their electrification projects at Akwamu number two on Friday.

They said the poles would help them to tap electricity from St. Martin Secondary School at Nsawam Adoagyiri about two kilometres away to their communities. Speaking to the GNA at the harvest which yielded one million cedis, Nana Baffour Mante the third, chief of Akwamu number one and Nana Addo Danquah the second, chief of Akwamu number two who jointly chaired the function said the people would erect the poles through communal labour.

The two chiefs appealed to the government to assist them just as the government assisted other communities involved in electrification projects in the area. They said almost all the 32 communities in the area are enjoying the use of electricity except Akwamu number one and two, which are only two kilometres from Nsawam, the district capital.

GNA