Nana Kwadwo Seinti, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister on Wednesday warned drunkard and truant teachers in the region to change their attitude or face sanction including dismissal from the Ghana Education Service (GES).
He said since the Government was making heavy expenditure through the provision of infrastructure, logistics and other facilities in the education sector, teachers should not indulge in acts contrary to the demands of their training and expectations of the GES.
The Regional Minister said to complement the efforts of the Government in delaying a solid educational foundation for children, teachers should be more serious and devoted without compromising the ethics and ideals of the teaching profession.
Nana Seinti was speaking at Nkoranza on the first day of his two-day familiarization tour of the Nkoranza District in the Brong-Ahafo Region
He said teachers were opinion leaders in the society and role models to their pupils and students and "any acts of indiscipline and immorality on their part, scandalized the children and also tended to have a negative effect on most of them which could eventually ruin their lives".
Nana Seinti stressed that the Government could not afford to empower the people economically by just distributing monies to individuals as gifts saying that, any money that went to the people might be accounted for justifiably
"That was why the Government had introduced various poverty alleviation and training programmes for people, both employed and unemployed to take advantage and create jobs for themselves", he said.
The Regional Minister urged the people to develop the attitude of hard work to better their lots since economic prosperity is achieved through hard work.
He said the Government would not shirt its promise to serve the interest of the people, stressing that, it would continue to serve for the interest of Ghanaians.
The Regional Minister inspected HIPC and Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) projects being undertaken by the Nkoranza District Assembly and addressed durbars organized by the chiefs and people in his honour at Bonsu, Nkwabeng, Akuma and Akumsa-Domase, all in the district.
The chiefs and people of the towns appealed for good drinking water, roads, health and educational facilities and agro-processing industries to process watermelon and pineapple, which are grown in large quantities in the area.
