News:
April 5, 2019
Member of Parliament for North Dayi, Joycelyn Tetteh, has facilitated the building of two unit classroom block for the people of Botoku in her constituency with work commencing on Tuesday 2nd April 2019 and would be completed in five months time.
The North Dayi lawmaker joined the chiefs and People of Botoku to cut sod for the start of the project which is a two classroom block, staff common room and a store with the provision of toilet facility for boys and girls.
A non-government organization (NGO), Pencils of Promise is providing eighty percent of the materials for the building whiles the community is suppose to provide twenty percent, which had been taken over by the MP with the provision of sand, stone chippings while the community provides water and labour.
Madam Joycelyn Tetteh thanked the indigence of Botoku for coming out in their numbers to support the project, “I am happy that you came in your numbers, you did not go to your farms, neither did you say we are in opposition it’s the MP who had gotten her project she should go a do it”
She further pointed out that at a District Assembly meeting the chief and elders of Botoku approached her and said, “our daughter, we do not have classroom for our kindergarten pupils”.
The MP was met by the women and men of Botoku singing to the durbar grounds, where good boboboo music was played to welcome everyone.
“At a Volta River Authority resettlement meeting, I met the Country Director of the NGO after presenting a list of communities to be helped and I had to choose one; I had to settle on Botoku”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com