Launch of 100 Million Dollars KNETFUND in September.

Esiama, (W/R) Aug. 24, GNA - Formal launching of the 100 million dollars Kwame Nkrumah Education Trust Fund (KNETFUND) to support the training of teachers, provide needed facilities to achieve quality education as well as to assist hard working pupils and students to acquire higher education would be formally launched at Nkroful on September 20 this year.

The implementation committee and 12 sub-committees to plan the launch of the fund were inaugurated at a meeting of the Nzema Maanle Council, which is made up of all the seven paramountcies of the Nzema land, some selected sub-chiefs and queenmothers at Esiama on Saturday.

Representatives of Nzema communities in the various regions of the country as well as those in United Kingdom and the United States, including district heads of decentralised government departments and institutions attended the meeting.

The date for the launch of the fund was chosen to coincide with the ninety-fifth birthday anniversary of the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, Awulae Agyefi Kwame II, President of the Council and Omanhene of Nsein Traditional Area said.

The meeting appointed Mr. Frank Ocran, executive chairman of the State Enterprise Commission, as chairman of an eleven-member board of trustees to manage the trust fund, while Nana Paniaka V, sub-chief of Esiama is the chairman of the implementation committee.

Mr. Hillary Miezah, who led a delegation of Nzema citizens Union in London, said members would provide computers and other office equipment to enhance the work of the KNETFUND, and also source for funding for its launch.

Nana Akpoh Kainya, chief of the Nzema community in Kumasi, on behalf of the community presented a set of office furniture worth about two point five million cedis to facilitate the work of the Nzema Maanle Council. Awulae Annor Adjaye III, Vice president of the Council charged members of the implementation committee and the various sub-committees to work hard to make the launch of the KNETFUND a success.

Other activities planned for the occasion include home-coming of Nzema citizens living abroad, a grand durbar of chiefs and people of Nzema at Nkroful and non-denominational thanksgiving church service to round off the programme.