Larteh offers Methodist Church land for proposed university

Larteh-Akuapem (Eastern Region) 12 July '99

The President of the Methodist Conference, the Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Asante-Antwi, on Friday received documents on a piece of land offered by the people of Larteh-Akuapem for the proposed Methodist University-Ghana from the Omanhene of Akuapem Guan at a ceremony at Larteh.

The two-mile-square land would house the administrative headquarters of the university, which is to start operating as from next academic year temporarily at Wesley Grammar High School in Accra.

Presenting the documents at a durbar of the chiefs and people attended by the hierarchy of the Methodist church, Nana Asiedu Okoo Ababio the third noted that since the church was established in the town in 1879, it had contributed immensely towards raising the town's image through the education of its citizens, some of whom now hold responsible positions.

He commended the church for selecting the town as the siting of the main campus of the university which, he noted, was in recognition of the services the people of Larteh have rendered to the church over the years.

Nana Ababio assured the church that he and his people would place their resources at its disposal to ensure the implementation of the project and to enable the university become a top-class educational institution for both the town and the country.

Rt. Reverend Asante-Antwi thanked the people for offering the land for the establishment of the university.

He noted, that the project fall in line with the government's call for the involvement of communities in the provision of educational facilities for the youth.