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Eastern Regional Minister, Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso, has called on the media to support development efforts of government. Speaking at a soiree for media personnel in the Eastern Region, Ms Ntoso noted that the media was relevant to national development and therefore must cooperate with the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) for development. She said activities of illegal mining and the Fulani herdsmen were challenges that confronted the region last year, and pledged the RCC�s resolve to fight those negative issues for the benefit of the people and called for the support of the media. Ms Ntoso hinted that District Assemblies with challenges of Fulani herdsmen were creating fodder banks for cattle. She said when completed, the Fulanis would be made to move their cattle to graze there, to prevent the destruction of farms. She also assured that as head of the region, she would ensure that illegal mining was drastically reduced in the Eastern Region. The Regional Minister disclosed that this year, government was bent on improving infrastructure particularly in the roads sector; indicating that 23 feeder roads and 14 major roads in the region had already been given on contract. She promised to liaise with the Municipal Assembly to provide the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), with a permanent office accommodation to facilitate their professional output.