Gushegu Assembly constructs schools costing over GH¢ 250,000.00

Goma, (N/R), Oct.24, GNA - The Gushegu District Assembly in the Northern Region has spent over GH¢ 250,000.00 to construct four school blocks and other health facilities to serve deprived communities in the district.

The Assembly, under the GETFund Schools under Trees and Basic Schools Rehabilitation Program (SUTBREB), spent GH¢ 150,000.00 to construct a six-unit classroom block, an office and urinal for the Goma Community.

The school is to serve the Goma, Kambonyili and Gosum Communities which had their schools under trees.

Mr Alhassan Fuseini, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Gushegu, made this known at Goma, a farming community in the Gushegu District on Friday when he commissioned and inspected some on-going development projects the assembly had undertaken over the last two years.

The DCE was accompanied by Mr Abdallah Shiruz, District Planning Officer and Mr Francis Zigah, Head of District Works of the Assembly to inspect the projects.

Mr Fuseini commissioned a three-unit classroom block for the Maazijung L/A Primary School at Kpatinga at the cost of GH¢ 44,000.00 under the Assemblies District Wide Assistance Project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

He also commissioned a three-unit classroom block for the Kpatili Junior High School (JHS) under the Northern Region Poverty Reduction Programme (NORPREP).

At Kpatinga, the DCE commissioned a three-unit bedroom nurses quarters comprising a kitchen, toilet and bathroom facilities at the cost of GH¢ 56,000.00. The facility was under NORPREP.

At the Nayugu Community, the DCE commissioned a mechanized borehole which was made possible through UNICEFs I Wash Project.

At the separate commissioning ceremonies, the DCE impressed upon the school authorities and the people to maintain the facilities and protect them for the use of future generations.

He said the provision of the facilities was in fulfillment of President Mills' 93Better Ghana Agenda" which sought to bring development, especially health delivery to the door steps of the people.

Alhaji Abdul-Rahaman Yakubu, Gushegu District Director of Health, during the commissioning of the nurses quarters, appealed to the people to regularly visit the health centre and not resort to self-medication.

He said with the near eradication of guneaworm in the Northern Region, bilharzia and other waterborne diseases were the diseases that needed to be tackled.