MBDA inaugurates educational facilities costing over GHC900,000 in Bono East Region
Mr Joe Danquah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA) has inaugurated educational facilities to enhance academic progress in some basic schools in the Bono East Region.
The Tuobodom Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Primary, Buoyem Methodist Primary as well as the local SDA Primary and Methodist Primary Schools at Offuman in the Techiman North District benefited from three-unit classroom blocks each.
Before then, Sky News learnt teaching and learning in the beneficiary schools were always obstructed during the rainy seasons because of the dilapidated conditions of the old classroom blocks constructed many years ago.
Mr Danquah explained the Authority, mandated to implement the government’s one million one constituency programme, undertook critical assessments, identified and constructed the facilities at the cost of over GHC948,000.00.
Established in 2017 by ACT 962 of the Parliament, the MBDA Authority exercises its mandate in five regions; Ashanti, Bono East, Ahafo, Bono and Eastern and it is the main vehicle for spearheading the development of these regions.
He said until educational infrastructures were improved in rural communities, it would be difficult for the nation to improve access to quality education, and bridge the existing gap between school children in urban and rural areas as well.
Mr Danquah therefore asked teachers in the beneficiary schools to redouble their efforts and enhance the academic performances of school children, saying no school-going age child should be denied access to formal and quality education.
He further called on the school authorities to maintain the facilities so that children unborn could also benefit.
Nana Akumoah II, the Paramount Queen mother of Tuobodom and a former educationist praised the government for her unrelenting efforts to create a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning in basic schools across the country.
She said improvement in educational infrastructure remained prerequisite for academic success, and asked the Authority to ensure more schools in the area benefited from the facilities as well as washrooms.
Mr Kwadwo Twi, the head teacher at the Offuman Methodist Primary appealed for a computer laboratory to expose the school children to the use of the machines and advance teaching and learning of ICT in the school.
At the Offuman SDA Primary and Junior High, Mr Benjamin Ampofo, the headmaster of the school appealed for toilet and urinals, and thanked the Authority for the facility, saying it would improve on pupil’s enrolment.
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