Accra, June 14, GNA - The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) has collected data on the status of vehicles in all senior secondary schools in the country with the aim of providing schools with means of transportation. "The data, which requested schools to indicate type of vehicles, capacity, age, enrolment and status... would adequately inform the Ministry and GES to address the vehicular needs of all senior secondary schools," Mr Kwame Amporfo Twumasi, Deputy Sector Minister, told Parliament on Wednesday.
The Deputy Minister was responding to a question on when the Government would provide a bus for the T.I. Ahmaddiya Secondary School at Potsin in the Central Region.
Mr Amporful Twumasi said the Ahmaddiya School would be provided with a bus alongside others, which have similar needs when the allocation was being made.
In response to another question on when various projects abandoned over the years at Kpedze Secondary School, including a boys' dormitory, would be completed, the Deputy Minister said efforts were being made to complete the boys' dormitory, which was abandoned in 1988, with an initial provision of 100 million cedis.
He said the Ministry had, meanwhile, identified numerous projects that had abandoned at various pre-tertiary institutions across the country.
He said the Ministry, this year, set up some committees to take inventory of all ongoing "and seemingly abandoned projects initiated by the Governments across the length and breadth of this country. A report has been compiled and the Ministry is studying to implement."
A question was also asked on behalf of Mr Stephen Kunsu, NDC-Kintampo North, on when the medical campus of the University of Development Studies (UDS) at Kintampo would become operational and the Deputy Minister said the decision to establish a campus of UDS in Brong-Ahafo was on course.
He said under a proposal, a campus should be established at the Kintampo Rural Health Training School for the training of primary health care personnel among others.
Mr Amporful Twumasi said the UDS had held several discussions with the training school and there was the need for further discussions to enable "appropriate memorandum of understanding to be signed by the parties involved".
In a related development, Mr Felix Twumasi-Appiah, NDC-Sene, asked the Minister what the status of the construction of the various stadiums for the Africa Cup Nations (CAN) 2008 tournament was and the Deputy Minster said an inter-ministerial committee had been set up to coordinate the construction of all required stadiums, hostels and the provision of security, medical, communication, broadcasting and transportation facilities for the tournament.
"It has been decided that modern hostels should be constructed in Tamale and Sekondi to accommodate the teams and officials, who would be based in the two cities.
