Bagbin and Zumakpe offer 20 million cedis

Minority Leader Alban Bagbin and Emmanuel Zumakpe, Members for Nadowli North and Nadowli South, respectively, have both offered 20 million cedis towards the rehabilitation of the nearly collapsed Issa Youth and Leadership Training Institute.

The Institute, which is located in the Nadowli District in the Upper West Region, had its roofs blown away and some walls knocked off when a rainstorm swept the area in April. Zumakpe had delivered a statement in Parliament appealing for support for the rehabilitation of the Institute.

He said; "all the bungalows of the staff, seven of them, as well as some parts of the classrooms suffered various degrees of damage". The Member said the damage would have been minimal if the structure had undergone constant rehabilitation.

"Understandably, the structures are tired and cannot, therefore, be resilient as they were in their youth."

He said: "It is also interesting to note that the institute is completely surrounded by trees with many others in the midst of the school. One shudders to think what would have happened had the institute been bereft of tree cover." The Institute was formerly a Boys' Middle Boarding School serving the Nadowli District in the pre and immediate post independent era.