Human Capital Development Is My Priority- Hon Ben Ayeh

Human Capital Development Is My Priority- Hon Ben Ayeh tells constituents.

Even before Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic takes office to implement the free SHS policy (a flagship policy that is intended to develop the human capital) a member of parliament in his party has taken the wind out of the sails to develop the human resource capacity of his constituents, lending credence to the feasibility of the policy.

The Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Hon. Benjamin Ayeh has noted that the only tool that will provide a sustainable future for the people is not to fend for them on daily basis but to nurture and teach them how to be able to fend for themselves, this he believes is the only way to sustain livelihood of the people. Speaking to a section of the media during the commissioning of a vocational centre at Dominase, he said “globalization is now with us and the only way we will keep up with time is to build the manpower needs of the people.”

He has, therefore, resolved to vigorously embark on projects that will build and develop the human resource capacities of his constituents.

To this end, the Upper Denkyira West MP, who is also the second deputy Minority Chief Whip of Parliament, has so far established eight (8) vocational centers across the constituency, and furnished them with 20 hairdryers and 20 sewing machines.

He says the projects are aimed at providing employable skills to young men and women in the constituency in their various vocations of choice. Hon Ben Ayeh has gone further to pay the apprenticeship fees for all the youth who are learning the hairdressing and tailoring trade in the various vocational schools established in the constituency and has also promised to give a start up kit to each apprentice upon completion of his or her apprenticeship to ply her trade.

Mr. Ayeh has contributed immensely towards formal educational needs of the constituency. The Diaso Senior High School (SHS) located in the Upper Denkyira constituency, for example, has benefited from an ultra modern two storey dormitory which is intended to provide accommodation for about five hundred students. He has also provided 100 bags of cement towards the construction of a pavilion which will serve as a temporal classroom block for the ever increasing student population of the Diaso Senior High School.

To cater for the welfare needs of the school, Hon Ben Ayeh through his share of the COMMON FUND, has purchased a school bus to serve as a means of transport for the school, and donated two jumbo poly tanks to help curb the perennial water shortage.

Hon Ben Ayeh has also donated forty (40) computers, as well an assortment of books to the school’s library and has supported financially, various initiatives which have gone a long way to boost girl child education in the second cycle schools.

Mr. Ayeh’s resolve to invest in the human capital of his constituents is not only limited to the second cycle institutions but has also gone down to the junior high level to donate two computers each to all the schools in the constituency and a computer to the district’s directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) office.

He has given forty (40) computers to the SHS and ten (10) laptops for use at a computer center for Junior High Schools in Ayanfuri and has also donated AKIOLA maths text books and mathematical sets to some schools.

Meanwhile, Over 1, 000 students who are at the various stages of their education, have benefited from his benevolence, through scholarships, for brilliant but needy students from the community who have been enrolled in some Senior High Schools, with others in various tertiary institutions across the country.

Mr. Ayeh is now establishing a second SHS in his constituency at Ayanfuri as well as a five unit classroom block, while a second block which is a 12 unit classroom block is at a far advanced stage and hope to be ready for use by the start of the next academic year.