MP DONATES ITEMS TO INSTITUTIONS IN THE TANO SOUTH DISTRICT

The Member of Parliament for the Tano South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, Hon. Dr. Hannah Louisa Bisiw has donated a number of items including Computers and its accessories, set of Jerseys, footballs, a photocopier machine and exercise books to seven Educational Institutions and the Bechem Traditional Council in the Tano South District.

In a presentation Ceremony held at Bechem, the MP and Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Hannah Louisa Bisiw said the use of the items presented would go a long way to facilitate the work of the beneficiaries. She said, the government is investing in education to ensure that all schools under trees are eradicated and that the parents must also play their part by sending their children to school to enable them benefit from government initiatives.

Hon.Dr. Bisiw said, on assumption of office as the Substantive Member of Parliament for the Constituency, she has been able to initiate a number of development projects through the use of her share of the MP’s Common Fund to better and improve the lives of the people.

Hon. Bisiw said, the government is putting measure in place for the release of an Ambuiance to the Techimantia Polyclinic to help improve the conditions at the Polyclinic and used the occasion to catalogue some of her achievements.  She disclosed that, she will arrange for a free Medical Screening Exercise for the people in the district and urged all to take advantage of the exercise and know their health status as soon as the exercise takes off.

The Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba in a speech thanked H.E John Dramani Mahama for releasing five (5) vehicles to three (3) Institutions in the District in order to alleviate the transportation problems facing the Institutions and thanked the Member of Parliament for the Constituency for accounting to the people on her stewardship as the MP for the area.

Hon. Anaba said the Tano South District Assembly in collaboration with the Member of Parliament has been able to award a number of scholarships to many brilliant but needy children in the District to further their education and called on all and sundry not to politicise the work of the MP.

Hon. Anaba said, the Bechem town roads project is dear to the heart of the government and as a result of it has been awarded on contract and called on all and sundry to help make the project a living testimony. He said, the government through the policy of investing in the people has made strides for others to help and it is in one of such strides that the MP for the Constituency through the Lordina Mahama Foundation has been able to donate a number of sewing machines and carpentry tools to graduate apprentices in the sewing industry as a start-up kit to start business.

A Minister of State at the Presidency, Hon. Anarfi Mensah also in a speech thanked the President for the numerous projects carried out across the length and breadth of the Country.  Hon. Anarfi who is a product of the Bechem Presbyterian Senior High School hinted that the school will be celebrating its fiftieth (50) anniversary and that the government has committed itself  to put up a modern Library Facility for the school.

The Chairman for the occasion, Nana Fosu Darkwah, the Sompahene of the Bechem Traditional Council on behalf of the Omanhene of the Bechem Traditional Area, Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II thanked the MP and the DCE for their contributions towards the upliftment of the District and asked them to extend their hands to the remaining schools and other institutions which did not benefit from the items donated.