You have no excuse under Free SHS

By
Samuel Akumatey, GNA

Kpando Gadza (V/R), Oct. 03, GNA – Mr Bryan
Acheampong, Minister of State in Charge of National Security, has said under
the Government’s Free Senior High School and other educational interventions,
Ghanaians had no excuse for not securing the future of its children.

He therefore called on the citizenry to take
advantage of the initiatives to ‘properly position themselves in society.’

Mr Acheampong said this at the maiden Speech
and Prize Giving Day of Gadza Basic School, a 72 year old school in the Kpando
Municipality, where he donated GHC 15,000 as seed money for an Akpokli
Education and Career Fund lunched at the event.

The Minister said parents in particular must
support the Free SHS policy in view of the role education played in the
development of the individual and society as a whole.

He pledged to construct a six unit classroom
block for the school in memory of an in-law, Robert Gbenge who hailed from
Kpando.

Mr Kojo Addae-Mensah, Chief Executive Officer
of Databank who launched the Fund, called on parents to consider education as
the greatest inheritance they could pass on to their children, and stressed on
the importance of funding basic education.

Togbui Kodzoga V, Chief of Kpando Gadza who
initiated the Fund, said it was conceived to help ease the educational burden
on parents in the area and to support the career aspirations of the people.

The Speech and Prize Day was on the theme
“Education; the means of developing responsible and accountable future
leaders.”

Mr Kudzo Agbale, Headmaster of the School said
enrolment had dipped significantly over the years due to the unavailability of
toilet and other facilities including a library.

He said the structure of the decades-old
school building had weakened, with no space for teaching staff, whiles the
school recorded a shortage of textbooks.

A six unit classroom block and a canteen
jointly constructed by Togbui Kodzoga and Emu, a Non-Governmental Organisation
was commissioned to mark the event, whiles Union Ghana, an association of
professionals promised to support with toilets and other facilities.

GNA

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