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Accra Academy “Old boys” unveils North Gate Project

By Edna A. Quansah, GNA    

Accra, Aug. 21, GNA – The Accra Academy 1980
Old Boys Association, ‘Bl3oo 80’ has refurbished and handed over the North Gate
project to the school’s administration as part of activities to mark the 2019
“Bleoobii” Homecoming celebrations.

The ceremony brought together all past and
present students of the school, including the chairman of the Governing Council
of the school, Mr. Wilson Tei.

The North Gate, which connects to the Asere
Ayitey Street on the Bubuashie side of the school had not been in the best of
shape.

The chairman of the Bleoo 1980 year group
Mr. Robert Kofiga, said the gate needed a befitting facelift that would match
“the credentials of the noble school of gentlemen”.

“Henceforth this beautiful edifice will
give a befitting welcome to visitors to the noble school that has and continues
to raise and shape the minds of great academicians for the country Ghana.”

The project, which cost about GH¢100,000, is
one of the many huge infrastructural needs of the school and Mr. Kofiga was
happy that the Bleoo 80 year group had managed to give it a facelift.

Dr. Victor Attuquaye Clottey, Project
Coordinator and treasurer of ‘Bleoo 80’ year group, mobilised the funds for the
project, and congratulated all the year group members, in and out the country,
for their financial contributions towards the success of the project.

He urged other year groups to look at other
areas of infrastructural needs of the school and address it to help mold the
school into one of the foremost in terms of infrastructural development.

“It is important to give back to the
institution that shaped the little minds and spurred it to become who they are
today.”

The headmaster of the school, Reverend
William Garr, congratulated the group for their thoughtfulness, saying that,
generations yet unborn would thank the Bleoo 80 group for this project.

Mr. Tei said the school needs more
infrastructural development, including a housing facility for teachers on
campus and urged all to support and contribute towards the housing project.

GNA

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