"Government will not renege on its campaign promises"-Ms Koomson

Akyem Oda, Feb.10, GNA - Ms Ophelia Koomson, the Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive, on Thursday assured rural communities that the government would not renege on its campaign promises. "Government will continue to provide you with good drinking water, accessible roads, electricity supply and good school infrastructure to promote quality teaching and learning among others," she said. Ms Koomson said this when she presented free school uniforms to pupils at Akyem Koforidua, Kyeremase, Nyame Nti, Asibrim, Suponso, Anomabo and Mmofram Local Authority schools at separate functions on Thursday. She said the school uniforms as well as the Capitation Grant were interventions to ensure that quality education did not only become affordable but also accessible to all.

Ms Koomson advised parents to take advantage of those interventions to enrol their children in school.

She appealed to teachers to guard against all acts that tended to undermine teaching and learning in rural schools to enable the children to compete favourably with their counterparts in the urban centres. Mr David Afram, the Municipal Director of Education, acknowledged the pivotal role teachers have played and continue to play in the implementatio= n of new educational reforms. He reminded teachers that they were expected to exhibit a new sense of commitment and zeal in their calling to make government educational policie= s succeed. Mr Affram assured that government would continue to dialogue with the leadership of teachers towards improving their conditions of service.