PRESIDENT MILLS DONATES FOOD ITEMS TO MOSLEM COMMUNITY IN THE TANO SOUTH DISTRICT

On behalf of the President of the Republic of Ghana the Tano South District Chief Executive Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba has donated food items comprising thirty-one (31) bags of Rice and Five (5) Cartons of Frytol Cooking Oil to the Moslems Community in the Tano South District to celebrate this year’s Eid-UL-Fitr.


Presenting the items at a solemn but colourful ceremony at Bechem after he had joined his Moslem counter parts in prayer to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting, the District Chief Executive said he brings to them the good wishes of the President in their celebration of the Eid- UL-Fitr.

He said the items donated were to be distributed to the needy, widows, orphans and the old age within the Muslim Community to enable them also celebrate the day. The District Chief Executive mentioned that it has been brought to the attention of the President that some people were raising concerns that the president was moving the country in a slow pace to which he said the president wishes to state that governing a country was not a matter of speeding up and that the president said he knew what he was about. He therefore assured the people that the end would justify his efforts so he must be given time and peace to execute his plans successfully.

The Chief Imam of the Tano South District Ibrahim Gariba who received the items on behalf of the Moslem Community thanked President Mills for his kind gesture and assured the items would be distributed according to the purpose for which it was donated. The Chief Imam said Muslims have not ceased in praying for the nation and its leaders. He thus commended the President for showing his concern to the Muslim community especially the indigent in the district.

The Chief Imam called on Ghanaians irrespective of their political differences to rally behind the ruling government in order for them to make life in the country worth living in. He said Ghanaian should unite to put the interest of the country first and should not allow our personal interest overshadow that of the country. Imam Gariba also charged the District Chief Executive to extend the best wishes of the Muslim Community in the Tano South District to the President.



BARNIE K. AGYEMAN
DISTRICT INFO OFFICER

TANO SOUTH DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE EMBARK ON “MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL” PROGRAMME

Pupils entering class one in the basic school in the Tano South District for the first time have been asked to remember their first day at school and also been advised to continue to go to school everyday and learn hard to become useful citizens and fut

ure leaders. This advise was contained in messages the District Chief Executive for Tano Sou

th Honorable Bukari Zakari Anaba gave to pupils he interacted with in some selected Basic Schools in the District where he visited to observe the “My first day at school” programme.

The selected schools where the DCE and his entourage visited and interacted with pupils and teachers were Ankaase L/A

Primary, Derma Islamic Primary Schools, Dwomo Methodist primary School,

Bechem Islamic and Presby Primary Schools and Bechem Junction L/A Primary School.

The District Chief Executive was accompanied on his visit by the Tano South District Coordinating Director Mr. Daniel Osei Assibey, Mr. Marcus Sarpong the District Education Director and officials from both the Tano South District Assembly and Education Directorate respectively. “My first day at school” a programme observed during the first day of re –opening of basic schools for the start of an academic is to welcome new entrants to primary one with gifts ranging from toffee, biscuits and miniature caps. The Tano South Districts version of the programme saw about Seven Thousand new entrants been attended to in the Four Educational Zones of the district.

Interacting with pupils of class one in the various schools Honorable District Chief Executive and his team visited, they reminded the children that they had left their parents to join a new family which they found themselves being the school family and they should ensure that what they have started that day in the school family would go a long way to determine their career in the near future. He said the caps and other gifts they had received were gifts from the President of the Republic of Ghana and that the president urges them to learn hard, respect their teachers and always attend school to become useful citizens in future.

The DCE mentioned to the pupils that the day was a great day and also marked a turning point in their lives and should take the gifts on behalf of the president as a sign of being welcomed to the school and hoped they would stay in school and learn well.

Complementing the teachers, the District Chief Executive said he was impressed by their attendance to school on the first day and urged them to keep that up. He said the children had left their home to join the school community to learn and that the children had been entrusted in their care to teach and guide thus it is what the children would learn from them that would determine their future. He therefore entreated them not to hesitate to report their problems to the District Director of Education.

The District Director of Education Mr. Marcus Sarpong in a short address emphasized on the DCE‘s call to the teachers and therefore cautioned them to refrain from absenteeism and drinking alcoholic beverages coming to school. He said offending teachers when reported would not be spared

Similar messages of the Honorable District Chief Executive and that of the District Director of Education were carried across by the other officers who visited the other schools in the Four Educational Zones of the district also gave out gifts to the pupils.

BARNIE K. AGYEMAN

DISTRICT INFO OFFICER