Gomoa Brofo gets new classroom block
A GH¢150,000 six-unit classroom block with an office and a store for the Gomoa Brofo D/A Basic School in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region has been inaugurated.
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The facility is to help provide an academic-friendly environment for the school pupils to enable them to realise their potential in life, as well as improve basic education in the district.
District Chief Executive
At a durbar of chiefs and people of the area to inaugurate the project, the Gomoa West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, stressed the importance the government attached to the delivery of quality education to the citizenry.
According to him, the government, in its bid to arrest the falling standard of education, especially at the basic level, had committed a lot of resources towards the provision of infrastructure and educational materials to improve the standard of education.
He noted that the government, as a major stakeholder in the educational sector, would continue to play its pivotal role to reverse the trend of performance among students. The DCE called on parents to also play their respective roles to augment the efforts of the government.
He indicated that the assembly had resolved to put up teachers’ quarters in most of the schools in the district to put a stop to the situation where teachers had to commute from far distances to school, with its negative effect on instructional hours.
Advice to parents
He advised parents to take keen interest and invest meaningfully in the education of their children so that they could help in the provision of holistic education.
He expressed regret about the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy among schoolgirls at the basic school level in the area and, therefore, appealed to parents to effectively monitor their daughters to help nip the canker in the bud.
Member of Parliament
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, implored the students to reciprocate the gesture by the government by studying hard so that they could live meaningful lives in future.
He explained that the world of work today had become very competitive and that the only way they could get employed was for them to acquire the requisite education.
He further advised them to eschew any negative acts that could jeopardise their future such as truancy, drug abuse and absenteeism from school.
Appreciation
Obaatan Akyen, the regent of the town, expressed gratitude to the assembly and the government for the construction of the school block, adding that the project would go a long way to help improve performance among the students.
He appealed to the government to expedite action on the construction of the major road to the town to ease the free movement of vehicles.
