Story by George Yawson Vineh
Pan African Television got result as its campaign to connect Tubong community in the Upper East Region to the National Grid gained response from government having battled with darkness for sixty years.
Residents of Tubong, a farming community in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region have been in darkness for the past sixty years as several calls to government to connect them to the National Grid fell on death ears until the presence of Pan African Television campaign to alert opinion leaders and government to help solve the menace.
The joy of Tubong to be added to the National grid came after close to a year campaign by Pan African Television.
The Moba or Bimoba people are Gur-speaking ethnic group from the North-East Ghana and North-West Togo.
Appreciating the development by government, Youth Chief of the Bimoba, Bernard Mornah reiterated the importance of electricity to his people and thanked Pan African Television for the advocacy.
Population of the Bimoba centres in Ghana include Bimbagu and Bunkpurugu. The Bimoba number approximately 250,000 people in north-eastern Ghana and about 320,000 people in northern Togo.