Nkoranza District provide educational infrastructure

Accra, April 13, GNA - The Nkoranza District Assembly has provided classroom blocks and bungalows, motorbikes and television sets for teachers to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in the District.

The District Chief Executive for Nkoranza, Mr Appiah Amoah announced this at a dinner and fund raising meeting organised by the Legon branch of the Nkoranza Students Union (NKOSU) at the University of Ghana, Legon.

He observed that quality education was a pre-requisite to break the cycle of ignorance, poverty and diseases in any society and said a block of six classrooms was being built at Tankor while a new junior secondary school block was also under construction at Bonte. A 23 unit teachers quarters is also under construction at Bredi Number One and another four-unit teachers' quarters was being built at Brahoho, all in the District.

He said Educational Circuit Supervision had been given three motorbikes to facilitate effective supervision and 25-inch TV sets had been had been purchased for distribution to schools in the District. Dr Yaw Kodom, an Accra based Dentist, who chaired the function, asked the students to be committed to their studies and to strive to conduct themselves in ways that would project the image of Nkoranza. He further urged the Union to assist the chiefs and people of the area to wage a crusade against illiteracy and other negative tendencies which impeded progress.

The Outgoing President of the Union, Mr Kofi Gyan said the Union engaged in voluntary teaching and other educational programmes and this helped to move the District from 102nd position on the National Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) League Table in 2003 to 74th in 2004.

He mentioned that the union had secured computers and their accessories and textbooks for distribution to selected schools. Mr Gyan said he was not happy about some parents over-indulgence in expensive funerals at the expense of their children's education, called for support for the Union to embark on intensive educational programmes to drum home the need for all to give education paramount attention. He also paid tribute to the Omanhene of Nkoranza, Okatakyie Agyeman Kodom for establishing an educational endowment fund to promote education in the traditional area. Present at the function was Major Derrick Oduro (rtd), an eminent citizen of the area, who pledged to offer the Union a vehicle, public address system and other related equipment to enhance their intended educational drive campaign.