Afigya-Kwabre steps up education development effort

The Afigya-Kwabre District Assembly has scaled up its education development effort - providing senior high schools (SHS) in the area with the needed structures for effective academic work.

These include construction of classroom blocks, dormitories, dining halls and teachers’ accommodation at Aduman SHS and Osei Tutu SHS.

The assembly, additionally, has extended water supply to the Saint Michael’s Community SHS at Ahenkro and in the process of connecting electricity to the school.

Mr. Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, the District Chief Executive (DCE), told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that it was also paying the salaries of some of the teachers.

These are being done against the background of the assembly’s enduring resolve to make the school environment – both basic and second cycle levels, academically-friendly.

They would make sure that the appropriate structures were in place to bring about the expected quality.

“We would continue to build new classrooms and refurbish the old ones, supply furniture and other teaching and learning materials in spite of the myriad of competing demands on our limited financial resources”, he added

Reporters of the Agency had gone to the area under STAR-Ghana’s sponsored media auditing and tracking of development projects, an initiative launched to put the spotlight on how government’s resources were helping to transform the lives of the people especially the rural population.

The goal is to aid transparency, promote accountability and good local governance.

Mr. Oppong-Kyekyeku said the assembly had made education its number one priority because it was the route to the progress of every society.