News:
July 29, 2024
Chairman of the Finance Committee Yaw Patrick Boamah as part of letting members of the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) know workings of the Committee has revealed that one hundred and seventy-four (174) Senior High Schools (SHS) would benefit from two hundred and forty (240) laboratories to be built across the country.
According to him the finance committee is seeking additional funding for phase two which is a project government is building on.
Last week Friday, July 26, 2024, the finance Committee laid a report and sort Parliamentary approval for these facilities.
“It’s important we are trying to introduce a lot of ICT infrastructure in our senior high schools”, he said at a press conference on Monday, July 29, 2024, before the House started proceedings.
The document presented to parliament reads, “In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and at the request of the Government of Ghana acting through the Minister responsible for Finance, there has been laid before Parliament a request by the Minister for Finance for the prior approval of Parliament the exercise by him of the power conferred under the Laws and Regulations relating to the waiver of Import Duties, Import VAT, Import NHIL, Import GETFund Levy, EXIM Levy and Special Import Levy amounting to the Ghana Cedi equivalent of One Million, Five Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Forty Euros (€1,517,040.00) for the supply and installation of integrated e-learning laboratories in Senior High Schools (Televic Phase II)”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com