Kumasi, June 3, GNA- Mr Samuel Agyei, Director of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) in Kumasi, has reiterated the call for Ghanaians to develop a taste for locally produced items, especially those that depict the country's rich cultural values.

Such a gesture he said, would serve as a portrayal of the pride the people take in their own culture.

Mr Agyei made the call at a ceremony in Kumasi on Friday during which Mr Mark Nyante, a Kumasi-based Artist donated three mural paintings worth 75 million cedis as his contribution to current efforts being made to facelift the Centre.

He said painting was a very important way of preserving the Ghanaian culture and therefore sensitising the people to appreciate artistic paintings would increase the market for such works thereby creating more jobs and revenue for the country's artists. Mr Nyante, Managing Director of the Variety Arts Services, presenting the paintings depicting different cultural scenes said it was essential that Ghanaians kept vivid and picturesque memories of their past and the only way to do this was by putting them into paintings or works of art. He promised to paint more pictures when the need arose in the near future.