MCE tasks headmasters to ensure early completion of school projects

Akyem Oda, Oct. 12, GNA - Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has tasked heads of senior high schools (SHS) in the area to ensure that contractors working on various school projects to accommodate fresh students completed them on time. Inspecting the six-unit classroom blocks being constructed for SHS in the municipality on Tuesday, she challenged the heads to constantly supervise the projects to ensure that the contractors were on site every day for early completion of the projects.

Ms Koomson inspected works on the projects at Attafuah Senior High Technical School, Saint Francis SHS, Oda SHS, Akyem Akroso SHS and Atweaman SHS at Akyem Manso.

She indicated that the government was determined to ensure that no qualified student was denied admission into SHS due to lack of infrastructure and urged the school heads not to leave anything to chance. Ms Koomson challenged the heads to improvise where necessary to help absorb all the new first year students that were being posted to their schools.

She commended them on the initiative they had taken so far and said the government's Better Ghana Agenda could only be fulfilled if all children of school going age got access to quality education. At Attafuah Senior High Technical School, Mr Johnson Yeboah Gyekye, Headmaster of the school, who conducted the MCE round, said they had converted a dinning hall into classroom blocks for the meantime. He indicated that the project was about 85 percent complete adding that they we re ready to admit the 450 first year students posted to the school.

At St Francis SHS, Mr Dominic Acquah, Headmaster of the school, said a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) staff accommodation was to be used to temporally house the expected 480 first year students pending the completion of the six-unit classroom block Mr Francis Kwadwo Appiah, Headmaster of the Oda Secondary School, said the old assembly hall was being converted into dormitories temporarilly. He indicated that when it became necessary, the library would be converted into additional girls' dormitory. Mr Appiah said the school had no major problem with classrooms except dormitories. Mrs Ablata M. Ansah, Headmistress of the Akyem Akroso SHS, said the six- unit classroom project was about 90 percent complete. She said the school's main problem was lack of adequate furniture and a dinning hall.