A
library with twenty (20) Computers has been inaugurated at Bechem in the Tano
South Municipality of the Ahafo Region.
The
programme saw in attendance Mr. Kingsley Owusu Achiaw, the Chief Executive
Officer of Kings Foundation, Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II, Omanhene of Bechem Tradional
Area, H.E. Dr. Ambassador Erieka Bennett, the Head of Mission Diaspora African
Forum, Hon. Collins OffinamTakyi, the MCE for Tano South, Hon. John Dadzie, the
Presiding Member for Tano South and Hon. Ernest Kwarteng, the MCE for Tano North
In
a speech, Mr. Kingsley Owusu Achiaw, the Chief Executive Officer of Kings
Foundation said, it was the vision of Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Area to
construct ultra modern library for the people of Bechem and its environs over
the years and since Omanhene had collaborated with him, they had been able to
build the facility and promised to work hard to ensure the facility is
resourced with the needed materials to help teachers and other organizations to
conduct more research on problems confronting their organizations and other
sectors of the Ghana’s economy.
He
said Bechem could boost of having training college and other second cycle institutions
and hinted that the availability of the facility would go a long way to assist
students and informed authorities of Municipal Assembly to maintain the
facility when the need arises to make it serves its intended purposes.
The
Chief Executive Officer for Kings Foundation addressing the gathering
Mr.
Achiaw said, he would continue to do his social responsibility’s work to make
students in the Municipality acquire quality education as expected to make them
become good future leaders and thanked government under the leadership of Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo for introducing free senior high school education
policy to increase enrolment figures in the various second cycles institutions
and also helped to reduce some of the financial problems on parents. He thanked
Her Excellency Ambassador Erieka Bennett for supporting Bechem United football
club and other residents both in kind and cash.
In
a short but impressive speech, the Head of Mission Diaspora African Forum Her
Excellency Ambassador Dr.Erieka Bennett said, she had brought some books from
the United State to be donated to the Library to help improve quality education
in the Municipality.
Her
Excellency Ambassador Dr. Erieka Bennett speaking at the function
In
another development, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the MCE for Tano South thanked
Mr Kingsley Owusu Achiaw and Her Excellency Ambassador Dr. Erieka Bennett for extending
their gesture to the residents of Bechem and its environs and also honoured their
pledge by completing the library facility at Bechem and thanked all and sundry
for making time out of their busy schedule to attend the programme. Hon. Takyi
said since library has been commissioned, it had become property for the
Municipality and informed younger generation to make good use of it to make it
serves its intended purposes.
Hon.
Takyi said, most of the challenges confronting Tano South Municipality could
not be solved individually and urged residents in the Municipality as a matter
of urgency come together as one people with one common destiny and tried to
find antidotes to the problems to make the Municipality develops and hinted
that he had collaborated with Hon. Ernest Kwarteng, the MCE for Tano North to
roll out policy to ensure teachers in the Municipalities are motivated to
ensure they impart their technical skill and knowledge to the students.
MCE
for Tano South speaking at the programme
Nana
Fosu Gyeabou Akoto II, the Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Area who chaired the
function congratulated Mr. Kingsley Owusu Achiaw for executing this beautiful
edifice to the people of Bechem and its environs and promised to take care of
the facility and put it into good use.
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