Assembly to sponsor three deaf students
The Lambussie-Karni District Assembly in the Upper West Region has adopted three deaf students and will sponsor their education.
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The three, who are students at a local basic school in the district, are to be enrolled at a special school in Wa to give them the relevant education.
The District Chief Executive for Lambussie-Karni, Bom Kofi Dy-Yaka, said many people with disabilities had succeeded in life and therefore urged the assembly members to support the move to rehabilitate the three students.
Unfortunate disability
He said those students could not be left to their fate because of their disability, hence the decision by the assembly to support them.
Addressing assembly members during the Second Ordinary Meeting at Lambussie, Mr Dy-Yaka said “the issue of education is central”, and announced that a contractor was on site to begin work on the community senior high school project in the district.
The Deputy Regional Minister, Dr Mohammed Musheibu Alfa, lamented the poor performance of students in the Basic Education Certificate Examination, describing it as unacceptable and urged the assembly to double its efforts to improve education in the district.
“The BECE results in the Lambussie-Karni District have not been the best for the past three consecutive years,” he said and indicated that the region recorded 22.6 per cent pass rate in 2011; 25.5 per cent pass rate in 2012, and the 22.3 per cent pass rate in 2013.
The DCE also announced that some communities in the district – Banwon, Dindee, Nabaala, Hakyagaan, Bognuo and Kadiligo – were being provided with primary healthcare centres through initiatives being sponsored by the government and the Japanese organisation, JICA.
He added that the Port Health Post at Hamile had taken delivery of a thermo flash from the Ministry of Health to enable the facility to carry out the test for the dangerous Ebola virus at the point of entry.
Revenue boom
While announcing a GH¢70,787 revenue accrued from the assembly’s internally-generated fund as of August; representing 64.4 per cent of the revenue target, he said the assembly had also received its share of the Common Fund for the last quarter of 2013 to help finance projects in the district.
The deputy regional minister, who stood in for the regional minister, urged assembly members to be concerned with sanitation and hygiene issues and stressed that “ailments related to sanitation and hygiene continue to torment us and thus affect productivity, hence worsening our poverty situation”.