Tamale Central MP embarks on development projects

Tamale, April 17, GNA - The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has embarked on several developmental projects including the construction of classroom blocks to give decent accommodation to students in his constituency. One of such projects is a 12-unit two-storey classroom facility for the Queen Elizabeth Basic School at Tishegu, a suburb of the Tamale metropolis.

Alhaji Fuseini, who is also the Deputy Minister of Energy, said funding for the project was secured from the GETFund and was aimed at improving the quality of education as part of the Government's Better Ghana Agenda vision for the people.

Construction of the project which is at the cost of GHc416,959.90 will take 18 months to be completed. The Queen Elizabeth Basic school in the metropolis was formally built and named after the Queen of Britain and reputed to be one of the oldest schools in the region. Alhaji Ibrahim Yussif Andani, Tamale Central Constituency Chairman of the NDC, who spoke on behalf of the MP, said the MP will soon start the construction of a six-unit classroom block at the Police Primary School at the cost of GHc150,000. He said the MP had also constructed three-classroom block for the Abariya Primary School at the cost of GHc85,000, six-unit classroom block at the cost of GHc150,000 for the Kulikuli school all in the Tamale Central.

The constituency chairman said the MP had also completed a nine-unit classroom block for the Salafia School at the cost of GHc201,000 while the Saint Joseph school had also been provided with a three-classroom block.

He said the MP had also constructed a clinic in his constituency to give quality healthcare to the people and advised the people to make good use of the facilities to better their lot. The Tishegu Ward Chairman of the NDC, Mr. Afa Aminu, commended the MP for embarking on such numerous development projects and appealed to the MP to focus attention on the human resource development of the youth in offering them employment opportunities. He observed that offering jobs to the youth would reduce the incidence of violence within the constituency adding that roads within the area were also very bad and urged the MP to rehabilitate those roads and bridges.