AHANTA WEST TO GET A NEW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SOON

The government of Ghana has finally followed through with its promise of building two hundred (200) new Senior High Schools across the country, with the official handing over of some of the sites to contractors for work to begin.

Ahanta West District which is one of the few districts to benefit from the project, handed over its land to the Contractor, Saturday, 26^th July, after a short ceremony at the project site at Sangol) (Sankor) Junction.

The short ceremony afforded officials of the Ministry f Education (MOE), and the contractor to come and meet stakeholders in the district, and to officially hand over the site to the contractor.

The Contractor, Samcota Company Limited, based in Takoradi, is expected to complete the project within eighteen (18) months of the day the site was handed over. This means that the school is expected to be completed and possibly admit students in 2016. 

The project will consist of twenty-four (24) classrooms, four (4) laboratories, two (2) libraries, washrooms and other facilities which will help in the running of the school.

In an interview with Ahantanews360, the District Chief Executive for the Ahanta West District Assembly, Hon Joseph Dofoyena, revealed that the school, which will become the third senior high school in the district, was necessary because it is going to help reduce the pressure on the existing schools by admitting Junior High School graduates who cannot be absorbed by both Baidoo Bonsoe Senior High Technical School and St. Marys Boys’ School.

Explaining the reason behind decision to establish another senior high school, the DCE said the district will in the future request for a tertiary institution but since this is what was being proposed, they had to accept it.

According to Hon Dofoyena, the Assembly is expecting the contractor to employ the local people, especially the youth, to help in the constructions works, adding that “it won’t be proper for the contractor to cart workers from other places to work in our district, when we can get the same workforce here.”

He stated that stakeholders of the project are expecting it to be completed within the planned period to enable the President’s vision of putting up two hundred (200) new schools by the end of his four years in office, become a reality.

The short ceremony was attended by representatives of Otumfo Baidoo Bonsoe IV, Overlord of Ahanta, Nana Kwesi Agyemang IX, Omanhene of Lower Dixcove Traditional Council, representatives of Sangal) (Sankor) Chief, Hon Kwame Aboagye, Member of Parliament, Ahanta West Constituency, and  the Presiding Member of the Ahanta West District Assembly, Hon Okumi Andoh.

The others are Mr David Affram, Regional Director of Education, Western Region, Mrs Susuana Ekua Quayson, District Director of Education, Ahanta West District, some honourable assembly members, some members of the Ahanta Tertiary Graduates for Development (TEGRAD), and some members of the general public.  

Story By:

Samuel Kojo Brace.