GOV'T. SUSPENDS GETFUND PROJECTS EXECUTION

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Government has suspended indefinitely construction works on all GETFund financed school projects initiated by the previous administration. Resumption of the projects execution depends on the completion of ongoing forensic audit of the cost of those projects to ensure value for money. 'You heard the PIAC  making a damning revelation about oil funded projects', Mr. Osei Mensah explained the reason for government's decision.

 The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, made this known at Tetrefu in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti region. He was addressing a durbar of stakeholders at the inauguration of a three-classroom block for the local Junior High School. 

The classroom block, with an office and a staff Common Room, cost 150 thousand Ghana Cedis. The project is a self-help initiative of the chiefs and people of Sawua and Tetrefu with material support by the Bosomtwe District Assembly and some individuals lasting approximately five months to provide congenial environment for teaching and learning at the school. 

The Regional Minister said, suspension of GETFund projects is also to allow for an inventory to be taken on all such project started by the Fund before 2017. Mr, Osei Mensah therefore appealed for calm and patience among the people of Tetrefu regarding delay in the completion of the six-classroom block additional facility for the local primary school being financed by GETFund.

 He commended the community for their self-help initiative towards advancement of socio-economic development of the town. Mr. Osei Mensah however urged parents and the pupils to reciprocate the gesture by playing their respective responsibilities to promote education in the area. 

The Project Consultant, Richard Nsiah, explained that the construction of the classroom block became necessary as a result of years of near neglect of the old classroom block which had not seen any renovation since its establishment in 1964.  He noted however, that the cost of the physical project did not include furniture for teachers and pupils and therefore appealed to individuals and organizations to help make the facility usable. 

The Head Teacher of the Tetrefu D/A JHS, Augustine Adu Fosu, said the pupils population of the school has substantially 'increased from 78 in 2014 when hei became the Head teacher to 150 this academic year' thereby requiring additional space to continue uninterrupted. 

According to him, the school’s performance at the BECE has seen much improvement from 82 per cent to 100 per cent pass during the same period. Additionally, the school has now established an oil palm plantation to generate income to finance some aspects of management of the school. The Chairman Wontumi NGO donated 500 exercise books for distribution among the pupils of the school.

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