PRESIDENT PAYS WORKING VISIT TO TANO SOUTH MUNICIPALITY

A one – day working visit has been paid to the residents of Tano South Municipality by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana and Commander ­- in- Chief of the Armed Forces.

       

The President of the Republic of Ghana addressing the gathering whilst audience is seated at the programme

In his arrival at Bechem, he and his entourage paid a courtesy call on Nananom at Omanhene’s Palace to interact with the chiefs to find out problems confronting the residents of the Municipality. In a short but impressive welcome address, Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II, the Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Area on behalf of other chiefs thanked the President for making time out of his busy schedule to pay working visit to the residents in the Municipality. He informed President that the road networks in the Municipality are in a deplorable state and pleaded with President and his government to do all it takes to tar the roads and create another district from the existing Tano South Municipal Assembly to serve the people at Derma and its environs. He said when the roads are tarred; it will help to reduce road accident, minimizes criminal activities on the roads and makes farmers to be able to transport their farm produce to urban centers for sale etc. 

                       

              

From the Omanhene’s palace, the President met general public at forecourt of Bechem Community Centre to explain government’s achievements and things government intends to execute in the Municipality and the region as a whole.  He thanked Nananom, Civil Society Organizations, political parties’ executives, heads of department and government agencies and all those who helped to make Ahafo Region created and urged residents to come together as one people to fight for development rather than allowing politics to disintegrate them. He stressed that government have completed all documentations including the procurement activities on Bechem Town roads and said in no time, the roads would be tarred by government.

He said different bi-elections’ brouhaha has been taken place in some part of the country over the years, and to end this menace, he has presented vigilante group bill to parliament for consideration and emphasized that when the bill is passed, it will help to reduce or address the election violence and urged citizens to desist from all forms of activities which will undermine the 2020 presidential and parliamentary general elections and as well as the district Assemblies elections.

He reiterated that a country without peace is like a ship without captain going round a sea and advised legible voters to vote against any political party which will use guns and cutlass to intimidate voters before, during and after 2020 presidential and parliamentary general elections and used the occasion to catalogue some of the achievements of government.

The programme saw dignitaries like His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Hon. Kwaku Asumah Kyeremeh, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Hon Alan Kyeremateng, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon Nana Ato Atta, the head of  Local Government and civil service, Hon. Hajia Alima Mahama, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon Adjei Korsah, the Deputy Minister of Regional and Reorganization Development, Nana Agyeman Prempeh, the Director General (NADMO), Hon. Evans Opoku Bobie, the Minister for Ahafo Region and MP for Asunafo South Constituency, Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, the Deputy Minister for Ahafo Region and MP for Tano South Constituency and Hon Evelyn Kumi Richardson, the Minister for Bono Region. 

MCE DONATES OFFICE EQUIPMENT TO TANO SOUTH MUNICIPAL EDUCATION DIRECTORATE

As part of government efforts to resource the government agencies and institutions to ensure they deliver quality services to the general public, the Tano South Municipal Assembly has donated office equipment such as laptop, coloured printer,  router, staple machine and pins, mouse, three boxes of A4 sheets, extension board and one hundred pieces of CD Room to the Tano South Municipal Education Directorate.

                                   

Items presented by Assembly to the education directorate

In a short ceremony which held in one of the offices of the education directorate before the presentation of the office equipment saw the MCE for Tano South Assembly, Hon. Collins Offinam  Takyi, officals of the Municipal Assembly and the directors of the Tano South Municipal Education Directorate.

In an opening remark, Mr. Evans Akingya, the deputy director of the Assembly said, in respect of the Basic Education Certificate Examination, management took decision on office equipment that could help the directorate to register candidates for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and hinted that it was upon the management’s decision that the Assembly has donated the above equipment to enhance the work of the Electronic Management Information System Unit of the directorate.

During presentation of the equipment, the MCE for Tano South Assembly, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi officially informed all present that the district has been elevated to the Municipal status. He said, in an educational sector, government has introduced free senior high school policy and hinted that the implementation of the policy has come with its associate challenges and said government is working assiduously to find antidotes to the problems to ensure the policy becomes sustainable.

                      

Hon. MCE presenting the equipment to the education directorate

In another development, Hon. Takyi said, due to the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education programme (FCUBE), government has absorbed all fees needed to be paid by parents for their children in the primary and junior high schools  and stressed that, the programme has helped to increase the enrolment figures in the Basic and Junior High schools and urged the directorate to play their routine supervising role to ensure that teachers report to work at all times to teach the students. He said the office equipment provided by the Assembly will go a long way to help the directorate to keep data on all final year students registered to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Municipality.

Mr. Tawia, the director in charge of the inspectorate division who received the equipment on behalf of the Tano South Municipal Director of Education thanked the MCE and the Assembly for their kind gesture and promised that the equipment will be used for its intended purposes and also put them into good use.