GOO-ATANDAA PRIMARY & KG RECEIVE SCHOOL UNIFORM FROM DCE 22nd FEBRUARY, 2019
The District Chief Executive [DCE] for Bongo in the
Upper East Region of Ghana, Mr. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga on Friday, presented 160
pieces of school uniform to pupils of the Goo-Atandaa Primary and Kindergarten
schools. This comes just one week after he had made a promise to the
authorities and pupils of the school when he visited the school on a different
mission.
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| Bongo DCE, Hon. Ayinbisa Presents a uniform to one of the children |
It will be recalled that Starr FM, an Accra-based
radio station on 11th February, 2019, published a news item on its
website to the effect that, over 200 school children of the school in question,
were without classrooms and were said to be exposed to bees in their school
environment, surrounded by trees. Immediately the DCE learnt of this, he moved
to the school the following day for an engagement with the authorities so as to
have a personal sight of the situation. It is worthy to note here that, based
on the everyday packed schedules of the DCE, he may not be privy to dire issues
such as this unless and until, the Directorate of the Ghana Education Service
reports to his office.
During that fact-finding visit to the school in the
company of the Starr FM reporter, Hon. Ayinbisa disclosed that, appropriate
action had been taken to construct a modern 9-unit school block for the school
as a philanthropist, who is also the founder of the Boys and Girls Club of
Ghana, Dr. Patricia Essilfie, had undertaken in 2016 to fund the construction.
This resulted from the Doctor’s prior discussions with the DCE and community
leaders during her visit to district around the time.
Hon. Ayinbisa also revealed that, close to 3,000
blocks had been moulded so far for the commencement of the project while the
Bongo District Assembly had drilled a borehole nearby, to facilitate the
construction works. The DCE was however disappointed in some community leaders of
the area and a committee put in place to oversee the project as in-fighting and
petty disagreements caused a stalling of the project for a little over one
year.
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| The pieces of uniform as displayed |
According to the DCE, he had since retrieved a vital
land document covering the plot of land donated for the project which had been
“hijacked” by a citizen of the area and that, he had also reached out to the
philanthropist and briefed her about the progress made. As a result therefore,
the project was to continue in the next few weeks to get the structure in place
in order to relieve the poor school children in the area of their predicament.
Meanwhile, when the DCE presented the free school
uniform to the students on Friday, February 22, 2019, he made yet another
promise to them and this one was that, he would add the Goo-Atandaa Primary and
KG in the next window of opportunity to increase the number schools under the
Ghana School Feeding Programme [GSFP]. If the DCE’s “Promise & Deliver”
attitude as he did in the case of the free school uniform is anything to go by,
then these little school children will very soon, beam with smiles again as the
GSFP will serve them a free quality meal on each school day which is also
expected to encourage many more children to attend school.
Hon. Ayinbisa charged parents in the community to
clean the uniform regularly for their wards and also patch the uniform for them
immediately a tear happens. He asked parents and community members to assist
the authorities of the school in giving the best education to their children as
he expressed high hopes that, some of these kids will be the future’s doctors,
teachers, presidents and other productive citizens that Ghana yearns for.
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He announced that from September, 2019 basic
education in Ghana, will now truncate at the Senior High School level.
Meanwhile he also hinted that, the historic Free Senior High School Programme
will be streamlined to benefit only students who attained aggregate 25 or
better in order to ensure that, students earned their inclusion in this
laudable education intervention that Government had prioritised. He noted that
while this move would push potential beneficiaries take their studies
seriously, it would also guarantee that only quality products were churned out
of the country’s educational system.
The Regent of Goo, Naba Adaam Nyaaba on behalf of
his subjects, thanked the DCE for the gesture and pledged that henceforth, the
community would do everything to ensure that the school project runs to a
smooth completion as the children could not wait any longer to have their
lessons and other academic work under a befitting school structure.
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