The Chairman of 2016 Gani Cultural Festival in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara, Alhaji Ahmed Bello, has advocated the recognition and funding of the festival by both the state and federal governments.
Bello made the call in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Kaiama.
The festival among others serves as an occasion that princes and princesses in the community are initiated into royal hood through a traditional shaving and christening of royal names.
Bello urged the government to improve on the festival by incorporating it into the national festivals in the country.
Bello, who described the Kaiama people as very hospitable, stressed the need for improvement on the infrastructural development of the community to enable it reach its commercial and agricultural potentials.
He described the event as not just a cultural activity, but a medium to maintain the royal lineage system in Kaiama.
He said it was also a means of transmitting values from generation to generation.
Also Alhaji Alhassan Bagudu, the chairman of Kaiama Local Government Council said participants are drawn from sons and daughters of the community from home and abroad.
Bagudu, however, urged the organisers to identify some potentials of the festival that could attract government intervention and foreign tourists. [GCF/NAN]
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