21 DEPRIVED COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IN TANO SOUTH RECEIVE LEARNING MATERIALS

The District Chief Executive for Tano South in the Brong- Ahafo Region,Hon Bukari Zakari Anaba has presented 2,916 Uniforms,1,465 Note one Books,267 Mathematical Books,2,767 Writing Books,142 Boxes of Biscuit,3,210 Cup and 4,820 of Toffees to 21 deprive community schools in the district.
The communities are Monta, Owen Nkwanta, Bronsankro, Adomakokrom, Bechem Nkwanta, kwasu Nyinasua, Bechem Islamic, Ohiaminguase, Mawaninso, Achiase, Krobo, Nyamebeye, Asuboi, Tweapease, Subriso,Tuagyankrom, Adaa, Nsuta, Ayeasuano, Kofi Ntamkrom and Derma Nkwekyire.
The DCE did the presentation at my fist day in school in the various communities.Hon Bukari Zakari in his address said, the president Professor Mills in 2008 campaign, promise Ghanaians that, if the good people of Ghana vote for him as the president of the nation, he will provide free exercise books and uniforms to deprive schools in the country and the president has been able to fulfill his promise so he needs recommendation headed.
Hon Bukari said, provision of quality education in the country is in the heart of the NDC government and said the government is committed to provide all the necessary logistics to improve quality education in the country, by constructing new class room block to stop school under trees, providing free uniforms and books to pupils, providing educational facilities and infrastructures and by giving more incentives to teachers who accept posting to rural areas.
The DCE commended president Mills for remembering the pupils of tano south district. Hon Bukari Zakari Anaba urged the pupils in the various communities to learn hard for their own benefit and the benefit of the nation.
He appeals to the various headmasters to distribute the items to the pupils to improve quality education in the district. The DCE cut sod for construction work on a 6 unit class room block for the pupils of Tuagyankrom primary school, The cost of the project is GH¢145,948.55 and it is expected to be complete in 8 months.

WORK ON ICT TRAINING CENTRE AT TECHIMANTIA BEGINS

The state of the project at Techimantia as at 23rd December, 2010. The contractor Mr. E.K. Asante promise to finish before the schedule time.

Work on the construction of a GH¢36,500 Information Communication and Technology Training Centre (ICT) building at Techimantia in the Tano South District has begun.

The centre a brain child of a UNDP, Ministry of Communication and MTN collaboration, when completed would help train the youth of Techimantia and its environs in ICT programmes.

According to the contractor working on the project, Mr. E K Asante of PHIL-TECK Company Ltd work on the project is scheduled to be completed in two (2) months time.

He said that the needed funds for mobilization had been made available for the start of work and prayed the remaining funds would be released on time for them to meet the scheduled time for the completion of work on the project.

The Chief of Techimantia Nana Oti Ampen who released the land for the project commended MTN, UNDP and the Ministry of Communication for siting the centre at Techimantia and promised his Traditional council’s readiness to help the contractor to complete the project on time.

Nana called on the youth of Techimantia to reciprocate this kind gesture of having had the opportunity to have the centre sited in their area to enroll in their numbers at the centre when the work on the project is completed and classes begin so that they would also be abreast with current trends in Information Communication and Technology.

TANO SOUTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY TO CONSTRUCT CLASSROOM BLOCKS FOR TWO DEPRIVED SCHOOLS

Work on the Construction of Classroom blocks for two deprived primary schools in the Tano South District is to begin soon. The project which comprises of a six(6) unit classroom block with ancillary facilities for the Islamic Primary School at Bechem at a cost of GH¢144,924.43 and the Local Authority Primary School at Tuagyankrom at a cost of GH¢145,948.55 is scheduled to be completed in eight months.

Speaking at the handing over of the project documents to the two project contractors of Messrs MAGGEI CO. LTD and KISBAN LTD at the project sites at Bechem and Tuagyankrom respectively, the Tano South District Chief Executive said that the execution of the project has been necessitated due to the fact that pupils of the two schools have for far too long suffered having classes under trees and hoped the project when completed would go a long way to enhance quality learning by pupils in the two beneficiary schools.

Hon. Zakari Anaba said education which is the bedrock of every development cannot be overruled when children are left to suffer the fate of learning under trees and it is in this vain that the Tano South District Assembly has deemed it fit to put up a permanent structure for the two beneficiary schools to house the children who are our future leaders.

Hon. Anaba entreated the contractors to use the best of materials at their disposal for the project since any shoddy work would not be in the interest of the Assembly and the beneficiary community and again entreated the contractors to execute the project on schedule and also employ some of its labour force from the beneficiary communities.

A project consultant of Procurement & Project Management Consultancy Firm who handed over the project drawings to the contractors urged the contractors to go strictly by the project drawings and specifications and ensure that the best materials are used for the project and also entreated the beneficiary communities to take proper care of the project when completed.

TANO SOUTH DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE PRAYS WITH MOSLEM COMMUNITY

The Tano South District Chief Executive Honorable Bukari Zakari Anaba on behalf of the president of Ghana, have donated Four Hundred pieces of mats worth GH¢3,600 to the Tano South Moslem Community, to celebrate this year’s Eid-ul-fitr. Presenting the items at a short but impressive ceremony at Bechem, after he had joined his Moslem counterparts in prayers to mark the celebration, the District Chief Executive said he brings to them the good wishes of the President in their celebration of the Ramadan.

Mr. Bukari Zakari Anaba emphasized that the donated mats should be distributed according to the purpose of donation to the Moslem Community to enable them to celebrate the day. He used the occasion to promise government’s assistance to construct a six unit classroom block for the Bechem Islamic Basic School. This he said is the initiative of the government of Ghana and Tano South District Assembly to help upgrade education in the Islamic Communities. Honorable Bukari Zakari Anaba advised the Moslem youth to desist from immoral acts which would corrupt their image and the Moslem community at large.

Receiving the items, the District Chief Imam, Alhaji Ibrahim Gariba thanked President Mills for the kind gesture and assured that the mats would be distributed according to the purpose for which it was donated.

The Chief Imam assured that the Moslem community in the district would continue to pray for Ghana to move the country forward. He commended the President for showing his concern to the Moslem community and therefore called for more of such donations.