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Tumu Kuoro appeals for Municipal status for Tumu

Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton, Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, has appealed to government to consider granting Tumu a Municipal status.

Date Created : 3/16/2015 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

He said, Tumu the Sissala East District capital, is the second largest community aside Wa, the regional capital, had grown over the years, and continues to grow at a very fast rate in population and infrastructural development.

He said granting Tumu a municipal status would help open many investment opportunities, and enhance the development of the district.

Kuoro Kanton made the appeal at the Annual Paari Gbielle Festival of the chiefs and people of the Tumu Traditional Area, on the theme: Developing the Sissala Land: A Shared Responsibility.

He said the theme for the festival was carefully chosen to bring to the attention of all stakeholders that the developmental challenges of our mother land could not be left in the hands of one person, organization or government.

He explained that the development of the traditional area required the knowledge, skills, resources and energies of all sons and daughters, and therefore urged the people to join hands with the traditional rulers to initiate the needed development programmes and projects to help reduce poverty, disease, hunger and ignorance.

It is only through our collective efforts that we can bridge the developmental gap of our area, Kuoro Kanton pointed out.

Talking about development projects, Kuoro Kanton noted that the establishment of the Tumu Midwifery School to produce midwives to cater for the health needs of pregnant women, had started yielding the needed results, since the first two batches of midwives had passed out, and are serving in various parts of the country.

This good initiative will help to reduce maternal mortality among pregnant women, which is in line with government’s policy and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), he said. Kuoro Kanton appealed to government to provide the school with hostel facilities, and a vehicle, to ease accommodation challenges, and facilitate administrative work.

The Tumu Kuoro also reminded government about the promise to provide a district hospital for the Sissala East District.

He said the strategic location of Tumu, the district capital, and with the bad nature of roads, made it more than necessary to have a well-equipped district hospital.

Mr. Elvis Kuntulo Bazawule, a private legal practitioner who chaired the festival, said the festival did not only foster unity, but promoted unity among Sissala and their playing mates.

The festival also encouraged the youth to learn more about the culture of their own.

The festival brought together people across Ghana and Burkina Faso, and was characterized with musketry, drumming and dancing, praise singing and the licking of red iron, among other performances.