By P.K.Yankey
Bomoakpole (W/R), Dec. 30, GNA – As part of the yuletide season, the Chief, elders, and indigenes of Bomoakpole, celebrated their maiden “B’Kpole Anyunluhole Avuwia” (Bomoakpole Development Feast) with an appeal on the government to prioritize the development of the town.
According to them, Bomoakpole, a farming community in the Ellembelle District community had not seen any meaningful transformation in the last few years.
Chief of Bomoakpole, Nana Minla Kpanyinli III, told Ghana News Agency in an interview at the official launch of the B’Kpole Anyunluhole Feast at Bomoakpole,a suburb of Nkroful in the Western Region.
Earlier, the community clad in white anniversary T-shirts, went on a float in adjoining towns from Bomoakpole to Nkroful and Nvenlesolo amidst brass band music and dance.
The maiden annual event is expected to trumpet an urgent call on the government and bring together indigenes of the community both home and abroad to come home and assist in the town’s rapid development.
The Chief mentioned lack of potable water as one major challenge facing the community.
Poor road network from Teleku-Bokazo to Bomoakpole through to Aiyinasi also needed attention.
Of much concern to the traditional ruler was the absence of asphaltic overlay in the town as not even a single street in the town was tarred to bring the town to modern standards.
The town also needed a health center badly although the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah had started one in the town.
Nana Minla Kpanyinli III mentioned the absence of a Community Center for social activities and an ultra-modern Chief’s palace as other needs.
According to him, unemployment was a major setback to development in the area, adding that the youth had not benefitted from oil and gas explorations in the Nzema enclave.
He said Nzemas had more qualified educated people who could occupy topmost positions in the oil and gas offices.
The Chief noted, had forced most of the youth go into small scale mining popularly called galamsey.
Nana Minla Kpanyinli III noted that the town witnessed social interventions during the Jerry John Rawlings administration from 1992 to 2000.
He said the town was connected to the national electricity grid under the rural electrification project for the first time in 1996 and provided a pipe-borne water project.
Nana Minla Kpanyinli III however, lauded efforts by the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah for supplying meters to the community as well as the extension of electricity as the community developed.
He said the MP had built a classroom block for the Junior High School in the town, a market shed and the replacement of their obsolete electricity transformer.
GNA