The chiefs and people of Yaakrom, a farming community on the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire border in newly created Dormaa West District, have appealed to mobile communication service providers to extend their services to the area.

Nana Kwasi Baah, Yaakrom Gyaase Twafuohene, who made the appeal in an interview with Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Yaakrom, said lack of access to mobile phone services in and around the community had made them to feel cut off from the rest of the country and the world.

He said the situation had crippled their socio-economic activities as health, education and infrastructural development was not enjoying the expected progress.

Nana Baah cited January 18, 2010 earthquake scare, which got to residents of the community several hours after the expected period for the disaster saying “if it had happened the entire Yaakrom community would have been wiped off’.

He appealed to the yet-to-be-inaugurated Dormaa-West District Assembly to make free-flowing communication one of its primary objectives when it takes off.

Meanwhile, Mr. Francis Kwadwo Oppong, Assembly Member for Yaakrom, has said the community’s request was high on the agenda of several communication companies operating in the country but could not tell how soon they would begin installations in the area.**