The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly has designated this year as the ‘Year of Schools’. This means that education will take centre stage in the Assembly’s budget and project distribution. The MCE for Bolgatanga, REx Asanga said he was worried about the inadequacies in the area of education; particularly with regard to infrastructure.
“For now, education is our priority. Whatever monies we get, we are going to put into furniture for schools, into rehabilitating buildings or even putting up new buildings. BY next week, we are going to award [a contract for the construction of a] three classroom block for one of the primary schools that need classroom infrastructure at Tondonsobligo with all the ancillary facilities,” he said.
In the coming days, the Assembly would launch the MCE Special Initiative Committee. The Committee is supposed to reach out to well-meaning individuals and organisations to fund the procurement of dual desks for children still sitting on bare floors to study.
“This Committee will just be going cup-in-hand, begging individuals to give us [the finances to construct] one dual desk, if you can give us more, that will be fine. The Committee will take it one school at a time. We will continue until such a time when all the children have desks to sit on,” he explained.
Mr. Asanga who school in 1964 found it ironic that in his time, there were enough desks to go around but while the years went by, children have begun to sit on bare floors to study.
He reiterated that the Assembly would not relent in its efforts to better the education sector within the Municipality.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Asanga also commended media practitioners and the various media outlets for their unflinching support in his attempts to relocate grain traders from the new market to the old market as well as the resituate the slaughtering of ruminants to the Yorogo facility.
“It is not every day you will get every media house or journalist to just be supporting a course taken by a politician. But in these two activities, I got the media completely in support of it. They really went out of the way to give us support and I think that is what kept us on. We were encouraged by the support. It appears that the population was also waiting for somebody to take those bold decisions,” he said.
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