GOV'T. SPENDS GHC 153.7 M ON EDUCATION IN ASHANTI

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Government has so far spent more than 153-point-seven million Ghana Cedis to put up many different projects in the formal education sector in the Ashanti region alone. 

These cover 868 classroom blocks, 13 dormitories, 13 Assembly Halls, 58 teachers’ bungalows, fourteen ICT centres and 39 Kindergarten blocks.

 Aside from these projects, five districts are benefitting from the first phase of the Community Day Senior High Schools which are currently at various stages of construction. 

The beneficiary districts are Sekyere Afram Plains, Adansi North, Obuasi, Bosomtwe and Ahafo Ano South. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Peter Anarfi-Mensah made this known at the last meeting of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, in Kumasi. 

The meeting was used to swear in all newly elected Presiding Members and Municipal and District Chief Executives.

 The Regional Minister disclosed also that Ashanti, like any other in the country, has had its fair share of the national cake resulting in a massive socio-economic development in almost every sector of national life. 

Still on education, Mr. Anarfi-Mensah announced also that government has given the region a total of 25 thousand bunk beds and mattresses which have been distributed to 90 Senior High Schools. Similarly, the region has received 18 thousand mono desks and five thousand teachers’ furniture. 

Also, all abandoned GETFund projects are being re-packaged for completion by the end of next year.

 Touching on health, the Regional Minister disclosed that government has spent over 13-point-four million Ghana Cedis on various health infrastructural projects as part of its commitment towards making quality healthcare accessible to all people in the region. 

These projects include 85 health centres and CHPS compounds, 32 doctors and nurses quarters, five children and maternity wards as well as two district hospital administration blocks among others.

 Meanwhile, the Regional Minister has asked all members of the RCC, particularly Regional Heads of Department s and Agencies, MMDCEs and Presiding Members who have been absenting themselves from the Council’s meetings to provide written reasons for their behaviours by close of work on Thursday, the 24th of this month. 

Mr. Anarfi-Mensah asked the members to take all activities including the meetings very serious, since it serves as one of the major platforms for the evaluation of projects and programmes in the region.

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