Winneba (C/R), Sept. 23, GNA - Mr Samuel Kofi
Owusu-Agyei, Minister of Public Sector Reform, on
Friday presented a cheque for 50,000,000 cedis to the
authorities of the University of Education, Winneba, as
his personal contribution towards the rehabilitation of
the Administrative Block of the Home Economics
Department of the University. Dr Jonathan Armah, Dean, Faculty of Science
Education, and Dr Adelina Effie Arkhurst, Head of the
Department of Home Economics (D H E), both of the
University, jointly received the gift on behalf of the
institution. Dr Armah represented the Registrar of the
University, while Dr Arkhurst also stood in for her
Department at the presentation ceremony attended
by the District Chief Executive for
Awutu-Effutu-Senya, Mr Solomon Kwashie
Abbam-Quaye. Speaking at the function, Mr. Owusu-Agyei said
the gesture was in fulfilment of a promise he made to
the Authorities of the University during a visit to the
Home Economics Department early this year. The Minister reiterated the NPP government's
desire to provide adequate and better structures for
the country's tertiary institutions to make teaching and
learning in these schools conducive. Mr Owusu-Agyei who is also the Member of
Parliament for Effutu, appealed to workers in the
various sectors to exercise restraint in all their dealings
with the government, assuring them that the NPP
administration would fulfil the promises it had made to
them. Dr Armah expressed his gratitude to Mr
Owusu-Agyei and assured him that the money would
be utilized to improve the poor state of the Home
Economics Administrative Block.
