Narration: A colourful durbar to climax activities marking the eighth annual Bimoba Festival for the chiefs and people of Bimoba community in the Garu-Tempane District of the Upper East Region has been held at Kpikpira. The event which was celebrated with pump and pageantry attracted a cross section of the public including sons and daughters of Bimoba community both home and abroad. Other dignitaries including government officials, representatives of the chief of Nankpanduri and his royal highness the Bawku Naba and overlord of the Kusaug Traditional area were present to grace the occasion. The event was celebrated on the theme: Unity with Peace is Development. Isaac Asare was there for Radio Ghana.
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The annual Bimoba Union Danjuar Festival which covers 58 villages and beyond is not only a yearly ritual for the delivery of speeches and display of cultural activities but an opportunity for stock taking and practical implementation of policy documents aimed at improving the socio-economic lives of the people. It is also a period set aside to strengthen the bond of friendship among the ethnic divides with peace and merry making. The Member of Parliament for Garu–Tempane, Dominic Azuma Azimbi who was the special guest of honour for the occasion commended the chiefs and people of the area for their effort in maintaining relative peace over the years. He also commended the Bawku Naba and all stakeholders involved in the Bawku peace process for helping to ensure prevailing peace without any unrest. Mr. Azimbi urged the people of the region to collectively make a meaningful contribution towards the prevailing peace process in Bawku adding that development cannot strive when there is disunity, chaos and anarchy. Factions involves in the conflict in Bawku were also charged to iron out their differences and forge ahead to ensure lasting peace through dialogue and reconciliation. He said government is on course in achieving its Better Ghana Agenda through development, stressing that government as a matter of concern has put in place policy interventions to speed up the level of development in the Garu-Tempane district and beyond. Among the interventions he pointed out is the construction of a district hospital in Garu and Bawku, the elevation of the Garu-Tempane Senior High School into a boarding status as well as the extension of electricity supply to most rural communities in the area and the region at large. According to him a 100 million dollar credit facility has been secured from the General Capital Corporation of the United State for the financing of the national rural electrification scheme for the Upper East Region. The scope of the project he added involves the extension of electricity supply to an implemented 500 deprived communities in the region, which he indicated would be implanted and executed within the next two years. In all 48-50 communities from the Garu-Tempane district are benefiting from the scheme. The Garu-Tempane District Chef Executive, Mr. David Adakudugu also assured the Bimoba union of an ultra modern office complex and a borehole to facilitate their administrative work. He also pledged to construct a dam for the community to ensure all year round farming and called on the people to be serious in their farming activities. Mr. Adakudugu commended the prevailing peace in the area and charged the people to volunteer information leading to the arrest of criminals for redress. The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awuni took the opportunity to congratulate all the newly elected assembly and unit committee members for their victory and urged the people to give them maximum support and corporation devoid of party politics so as to deepen the decentralization programme for the people at the grassroot. An appeal for fund was later held to support the Bimoba Education Trust Fund meant to assist brilliant but needy students.
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