News:
November 16, 2012
Tourism Minister Ms. Akua Sena Dansua has said that free education at the Senior High School (SHS) level is only possible at the expense of development in other sectors.
She said education was key to accelerated growth and should therefore not be used as a partisan tool to sway votes.
Dansua, also the Member of Parliament for the North Dayi constituency, made the remark at the commissioning of a GH¢150,000, six-unit classroom with ancillary components. The classroom, built for the Gbefi Anobi Junior High School, was financed from the Ghana Education Trust Fund.
She said that the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was embarking on a progressive and sustained drive to improve school infrastructure, quality and access. Part of a bid to improve the skills and competence of Ghana’s human resource base, Dansua called the NDC’s program a more appropriate solution to the education problem than free SHS.
She urged the people to vote massively to retain the NDC, saying that many more development projects under the party’s “Better Ghana Agenda” were yet to come.
Francis K. Ganyaglo, the Kpando Municipal Chief Executive, announced that 25 schools under trees, half of such schools in the Municipality, have been eliminated.
He also touted other NDC achievements in the education sector including increased capitation, the distribution of 4,278 free school uniforms and 217,656 free exercise books to basic schools as well as 1,600 mono desks and 650 kindergarten desks. 25 schools on have been on the feeding programme, and circuit supervisors have been given motorcycles.
Ganyaglo told those assembled at the inauguration that government needs the collaborative support of the community and other stakeholders to co-finance education and appealed to the traditional authorities to institute an education endowment fund to cushion the education needy students.
He warned that the Assembly would not take kindly to the commercialization of the facility, saying that violators would be subject to appropriate sanctions.
Kpando Municipal Directorate of Education representative Paul Afodofe announced that government is doing everything it possibly can in its quest to provide quality education.
He urged the school’s authorities to be vigilant and prevent students from defacing the building so that it might serve students for years to come.
Gbefi-Hoeme Chief Togbe Danku Yao V expressed his hope that the new building would inspire teachers and students to improve the quality of their work and academic performance.
He appealed to the authorities to increase capitation grants, saying that a shortage of funds has rendered the facility inadequate.
This event also marked the inauguration of a large palm-oil extraction complex for the Gbefi-Hueme community.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh