Government hands over unit classroom block to Kpeve SHS

Kpeve, Oct. 23, GNA - Mr Joseph Amenowode, Volta Regional Minister, on Friday said government's commitment to improving quality of education through increased investment in infrastructure and methodology was inviolable.

He was speaking at a ceremony at Kpeve to formally hand over a six-unit classroom block built for the Kpeve Senior High School under government's emergency schools infrastructure programme. Mr Amenowode said six other projects under the programme, under which 21 classroom blocks was being constructed across the region, had been completed and would be handed over in due course. He said the Kpeve SHS project was a particularly challenging one because of the landscape, which could account for a higher cost. Mr Amenowode announced the approval of a girls' dormitory for the school and urged school authorities to go on an enrolment drive as the current numbers were low.

Mr Wilson Anumah, Managing Director of Wil-Elik Construction Firm, who put up the building, told journalists that despite the additional job of reinforcing the structure with beams, it was completed even before the stipulated three months deadline.

Mr George Hansen, Resident Engineer of the Procurement Management Consultancy, supervising consultants, said the job was done to specification.

Regarding the contract edict that local artisans should be used on the job, he said skills levels and commitment had forced the contracting firm to bring workers from outside the local area, to meet the deadline. Togbe Adjei Agbai III, Gyasehene of Kpeve, while thanking government for giving priority to Kpeve SHS, cautioned students to resist painting the walls with graffiti.

"The block should not be used as a community centre or a brothel either," he stated.

Mr Sampson Kudaya, Headmaster of the School said the school, which started as community one in 1994 and absorbed into the public sector in 2001 urgently needed a library and administrative block.