SAMUEL OTU PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVES GOVERNMENT'S SUPPORT

 The government of Ghana through the Ahafo Regional Minster, Mr. George Yaw Boakye has handed over a 4x4 Hilux pick-up to Samuel Otu Presbyterian Senior High School in Techimantia and also inaugurated two major projects in the said school.

        

The Regional Minister and some dignitaries inaugurating the Projects

According to him, all the challenges of the school have not been tackled by government but urged Management of the school to appreciate the good work government has started in the school and do all it takes to impact knowledge to the students for the students to perform well academically.

He said hard work pays and for that matter, charged students to show respect to their teachers, devoid from immoral activities which would jeopardize their future and take their studies seriously to enable them become good leaders in future.  

The Ahafo Regional Minster, Hon. George Yaw Boakye addressing the gathering

Hon. Boakye thanked the Chiefs for their leading role played to make peace exists in the Municipality and urged them to also come together to fight for the developmental needs of the Municipality.

Mr. Evans Asare, headmaster of Samuel Otu Presbyterian Senior High School thanked the government under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo –Addo and the Ahafo Regional Minister for their kind gesture and indicated that the tremendous investments government has done in the school would go a long way to improve the school's academic work.

                                      

Mr. Evans Asare headmaster of Samuel Otu Presbyterian Senior high School speaking at the function

On the achievements of the school, he said the school could boost of having Wi-fi internent facility, vehicles, etc. among others.

Presenting the keys to the headmaster of the aforementioned school, Mrs. Lucy Ankrah, the Ahafo Regional Director of Education said the vehicle would go a long way to make management of Samuel Otu Presbyterian SHS effectively manage the school.  He charged the headmaster of the school to put the vehicle into good use.

In his address, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi (MCE) for Tano South lauded NPP government for providing infrastructures to the Municipality to improve the living standards of the residents and said the government through Tano South Municipal Assembly has implemented a number of projects and programmes to improve the life of people in the Municipality.

                                     

Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi (MCE) for Tano South educating the people

Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, the Member of Parliament for Tano South Constituency in his speech, said his office has liaised with the Assembly and collated developmental challenges  confronting the Constituency and presented to appropriate quarters to be addressed and hoped in no time,  all the said challenges would be solved  by government.

Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, the Member of Parliament for Tano South Constituency specking at the gathering

 The Krontihene of Techemantia, Nana Ampong Kromantain, who chaired the programme, thanked the President and the Regional Minister for their diligent roles played to acquire a bus for the Samuel Otu Senior High School at Techimantia and said free SHS Educational Policy has increased the enrollment figure of the school and called on government to take urgent steps to construct dining hall, teachers' bungalows and boys' dormitories for the School, since the school has 366 hectares of land.

TANO SOUTH MUNICIPAL EMBARKS ON TREE PLANTING PROJECT

 

The Head of the Forestry Commission and the Municipal Assembly has urged all to help in planting trees to help in sustaining the environment.

In line with the Green Ghana initiative, the Tano south Municipal Assembly in collaboration with the Forestry Commission are to plant 50,000 trees  in the location covering schools, communities, churches, homes and forest areas to complement the government`s 5million planting of trees across the country under the theme: “let’s go planting”.

Some of the dignitaries planning some of the trees

In her welcome address, Mrs Josephine Biney, the Assistant District Manager for the Forest Service Division-Bechem the Green Ghana project is government initiative to replant trees to replace the depleted forest through the human activities of felling down the trees without replanting for long time. The forestry officers made a remark that the Member of Parliament and government officials` heart bleed whenever heavy rain threatens to fall with storms which roof off people’s houses.

                         

                            The Assistant District Manager for the Forest Service Mrs Josephine Biney giving her welcome address

Speaking at the programme, the Tano South MCE Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, noted that it is a good initiative to leave the legacy for planting trees, the forestry officers should develop the habit of planting continuously without fail and should not only plant because they are being paid.

                             

The Tano South MCE Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi speaking at the gathering

He said government employed youth in afforestation to plant trees which are very important for human survival and advised that the planted trees should be conserved by continuous watering and maintenance.

 According to him, the benefits derived from trees are quite enormous and sited medicine and clothes as most common examples. He called on all state agencies to liaise with each other and non-state agencies to grow woodlot to prevent encroachment on their land and urge them to water them regularly.

Addressing the gathering, the MP for Tano South, Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere said the exercise formed part of the government initiative under the Green Ghana Project to help sustain the environment and reiterated the need for Ghanaians to plant more trees for the survival of future generation. He said the environment is changing rapidly due to the destruction of the forest and water bodies through human activities. He ended by saying “when we plant trees, they grow but when we plant gold they do not grow”.

                        

MP for Tano South Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere addressing the gathering

Nana Awuah – Boadi who represented the Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Council, thanked the government for the good intervention which would go a long way to help the ecosystem and emphasized the need to restore the ecosystem and promised to engage the community members and stakeholders to protect the environment because the country has lost some tree species due to deforestation.