Chiefs, people of Asuosu celebrated "Forkuo" festival

Asuosu (B/A), Nov. 21 GNA - The chiefs and people of Asuosu in the Nkoranza District of Brong-Ahafo have celebrated their annual "Forkuo" yam festival, during which a forum was held to plan development projects for the area.

Addressing the people, Nana Opoku Kudom, Odikro, stressed the need for parents to invest adequate resources in the education of their children so that they would become responsible citizens.

Nana Kudom deplored the negative attitude and practice of some settler farmers in the area who he said refused to send their children to school and urged them to change for the better, especially with the introduction of the government's capitation grants for pupils. The Odikro urged the people to promote unity, love and cooperation among themselves so that they could jointly initiate development programmes to improve their living standards.

He advised the unemployed youth to shun drunkenness and other social vices and engage themselves in farming and other economic ventures so that they would not become liabilities.

Mr Yaw Bour, Chairman of the Asuosu Unit Committee announced that the people were raising funds to connect the area to the national electricity grid.

The mobilization of resources, he said would also enable them to construct an additional block of three classrooms for the local primary school to open the way for a two-stream administration for the over-populated school.

Mr Bour appealed to the Nkoranza District Assembly to provide the community with 50 bags of cement and four bundles of roofing sheets in support of the school project.

Nana Akrapim Baffoe, head of the royal family commended the Unit Committee for its hard work in organizing the people to undertake communal labour towards the development of the community.

He announced that the community leaders had applied to the management of the Habitat for Humanity Projects, Ghana, to include Asuosu in the project and to assist the vulnerable in the area to enjoy decent accommodation to enhance their living standards.

Nana Baffoe urged the youth to organise themselves into groups and register with the project to benefit from the facility. The festival attracted a number of settler farmers from Dimango, Jerusalem, Nyinase and Alata-Akuraa.