Kpikpira(UER), Jan. 30, GNA - Dana Duncan Kulbong II, Paramount Chief of Bimoba Traditional Area, has appealed to Government to include Bimoba Language in radio broadcasts in the country.

He said this could be used as a medium to educate the people on important national policies, programmes and social issues to ensure rapid and accelerated development in the area.

Dana Kulbong made the appeal at the Fourth Annual Danjuar Festival at Kpikpira, near Tempane, in the Garu-Tempane District of the Upper East Region.

The festival is to give thanks to the gods for good harvest and health during the past year and solicit assistance for another successful year.

He said in addition to education, the radio broadcast would afford Bimobas the opportunity to showcase their unique culture to boost tourism to generate revenue to reduce poverty in the area. Dana Kulbong called for the construction of irrigation facilities in the area to enable farmers engage in dry-season farming to reduce poverty.

He noted that during the rainy season, farmers could not transport their farm produce to market centres, and called for the construction of feeder roads to open up Bimoba communities. Dana Kulbong pointed out that no meaningful development could yield the desired results when the people continued to live in poverty and appealed to Government for assistance.

He said problems confronting them could only be solved through unity and urged the people to take advantage of the peaceful atmosphere prevailing in the area to accelerate development.

Dana Kulbong commended Government for development projects that had reduced poverty and stressed the need to sustain them to reduce poverty, illiteracy, hunger and diseases.

Mr Emmanuel Sin-nyet Asigri, Garu-Tempane District Chief Executive, appealed to parents to take advantage of Government's interventions in education to send their girl-child to school. He appealed to the people to change their attitudes towards the environment and warned that anyone arrested for setting bushfires would be prosecuted.

Staff Sergeant Yenbuom, Chairman of Bimobas Union, said the festival was to promote peaceful co-existence with their neighbours for development.