TANO SOUTH DCE VISITS SCHOOLS TO MARK “MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL”

The Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zaakari Anaba and the outgoing District Director of Education, Madam Mary- Grace Bonye, in the company of some officials of the Tano South District Assembly and the Tano South District Directorate of Education have visited some primary schools in the District on the first-day of the re-opening of the 2014-2015 school Academic year to mark “my first day at school”.

                                             

Samples of goodies distributed to fresh Pupils

The “my first day at school” visits affords officials the opportunity to welcome fresh entrants of primary and kindergarten one to school and encourage them to attend school regularly and strive to learn hard.

The day also affords the officials the opportunity to interact with both teachers and other pupils of the schools as a symbol of their first day at school. The fresh entrants are given goodies to symbolize as a token to mark their first day at school.

Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba in all his speeches,  made at the various schools entreated the pupils to learn heard in order for them to achieve good grades when their time of sitting for the BECE examinations comes and entreated the teachers to use the limited resources at their disposal to give the children the best of teaching and learning.

                                               

The Tano South DCE sharing goodies to some of the Pupils

He said the standard of education has fallen a bit in the district and it behoves on the teachers to strive  hard to help raise the fallen standards.

Hon. Anaba advised the pupils to take their education seriously and learn hard and refrains from the habit of going out in the night to watch television whilst the older ones also spend time attending wake-keepings and records nights. 

       

The DCE and the outgoing Director of Education interacting with the children

Touching on the deadly Ebola disease which has shown its ugly face in some West-African States and the spread of cholera diseases in the country, Hon. Anaba said reports have shown that; Ebola is spread through the consumption of bush meats such as monkeys, bats and other species of bush meats, so they should advise their parents on the consumption of bush meats and hinted that cholera is derived from insanitary  conditions and advised the pupils to be sanitary conscious in their environments so as to avoid the contracting of cholera in their communities and always wash their hands after every activity which requires the use of the hand.

                                                     

The outgoing Director of Education attending to a Pupil

The outgoing District Director of Education lamented on how some pupils waste much of their time in the night playing instead of attending to their home -work  given at school and also advised the teachers to be regular at school and refrain from absenteeism. She said the best would be derived from the teachers if they give off their best and teach the children well, as that would go a long way to raise the fallen standard of education in the District.

Madam Mary - Grace Bonye advised the pupils to respect their teachers and take whatever they teach them seriously since that would enable them have a brighter future.

TANO SOUTH CHRAJ HOLDS FORUM ON ANTI-CORRUPTION

A Forum on Anti-Corruption and saying no to corruption has been organised at Bechem the Tano South District Capital.

The forum which was aimed at strengthening the Anti-Corruption capacity in the District’s community programme had for its theme “Bringing the Services of the Commission to the doorstep of Communities” and was organised by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).

                                  

Some of the participants at the forum

In an opening address, the Tano South District Director of the Commission, Mr. Owusu Bediako Appah welcomed all gathered and commended them for attending the forum. Mr. Bediako said they have been selected from all angles of the community to participate in the forum and hoped they would communicate what they would learn from the forum to their various communities. He said the forum would also afford participants to get an indepth knowledge of the Commissions’ work.

                                       

The Tano South District Director of the Commission, Mr. Owusu Bediako Appah welcoming participants to the forum

A Deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ at the headquarter of the Commission and a Resource person Mr. Richard Quaison who took participants through the various roles the Commission plays when it comes to Human Rights Abuse, Administrative Justice and Anti-Corruption, said the Commission seeks to promote and protect fundamental human right and freedom which is grouped in two broad areas namely promoting and prevention and protecting and enforcement.

On Administrative justice, Mr. Quaison said the Commission is responsible to investigate complaints on how public institutions carry out their day to day executive and administrative functions and again stressed that the Commission has the mandate to promote integrity in the public sector, combat corruption and investigate allegations of corruption and conflict of interest, abuse of power and misuse of funds in the public service.

                                    

Deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ Richard Quaison addressing the gathering

A Director of the Commission in-charge of Anti-Corruption, Mr. Charles Ayamdo, in a presentation talked on the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) its role, importance of NACAP to Nation Building and how NACAP can be monitored.

Mr. Ayamdo said the plan is a ten (10) year National Action Plan which seeks to combat corruption in Ghana and in order to achieve its purpose NACAP has four (4) Strategic objectives namely, To build public capacity to condemn and fight corruption and make its practice a high risk low gain activity, To institutionalise efficiency, accountability and transparency in the public, private and not-for profit sectors, To engage individuals, media and civil society organisations report and combat corruption and to conduct effective investigations and prosecution of corrupt conduct.

                                   

A Director of CHRAJ of Anti-Corruption, Mr. Charles Ayamdo addressing the participants

Mr. Ayamdo said it is important that we fight corruption in Ghana since corruption is a major cause of the provision of poor quality services and undermines or weakens institutions for democracy and good governance. He said corruption puts basic public services beyond the reach of those who cannot afford to pay bribes and makes it harder to meet fundamental needs such as those for food, health and education and retaliated that every citizen has a critical role to play in combating corruption and the very least that is expected of every person is to “SAY NO TO CORRUPTION”.

The presiding member of the Tano South District Assembly, Hon. Anthony Opoku who chaired the function in his remarks commended participants for the manner they conducted themselves and entreated them to go back to their communities and families and propagate the good message on Anti-Corruption and thanked the organisers and resource persons for making the forum a great success but called for periodic ones in the near future.

                               

Hon. Anthony Opoku The presiding member for Tano South District Assembly giving his closing remarks