MP calls for more funds for District Assemblies

Winneba,(C/R), Oct.9, GNA - The MP for Effutu, Mr Mike Alan Hammah, has called for increment in the allocation of the Getfund to district assemblies to enable them to support the operational requirements of basic school in their areas of jurisdictions.

According to Mr Hammah, the current allocations to the assemblies is not adequate to meet the classrooms, furniture and other equipment of primary, junior and senior secondary schools as well as the state-established vocational institutions in those areas.


The call followed a day's working visit, Mr Hammah paid to some basic and vocational institutions in the Effutu constituency on Tuesday to farmiliarise himself with their problems.


The institutions included Methodist primary A, B, C and D schools and Rev Father John's Vocational Institute, all in Winneba. He announced plans to use his 50 million cedis share of the GETFUND to support needy schools in the constituency to procure chairs and tables for their teaching staff and desks for pupils and students of such schools.


Mr Hammah said what he discovered during the visit, clearly indicates that the HIPC GETfund has not had an effective impact on educational institutions in the rural communities.

He said there is the need for the shares of the district assemblies to be increased as far as the implementation of educational programmes initiated by the central government is concerned. He charged the district assemblies to initiate moves to establish more educational institutions to cater for the girl-child, particularly female drop-outs for the various institutions to enable them to acquire some vocation, which would make them self-reliant.


This, he said, would prevent them from indulging in certain anti-social practices, which would degrade their womanhood. He expressed satisfaction at the good works being done by teachers of the Rev Father John's Vocational Institute, and hoped that they would sustain the spirit.


Mr Hammah advised the students to cultivate the spirit of self-discipline; self-control and hard work to enable them come out as responsible adults.