| Significance | No. of Respondents | Percentage |
| Summon to meeting | 48 | 16.49 |
| Used by traditional societies to send special messages | 75 | 26.06 |
| Alerts people to a problem needing urgent solution | 41 | 14.36 |
| All of the above | 124 | 43.09 |
| Total | 288 | 100 |