The Municipal Chief Executive for the Ga East Municipal Assembly, Hon. Kwao Sackey has tasked parents, guardians and all stakeholders of education in the municipality to show interest in the management of schools in the municipality.

According to him, there was however the need to strengthen the oversight role parents play in raising the academic standards of schools to an appreciable level.
 
Speaking at the 57th Independence day parade, the second to be held in Abokobi, the municipal capital since the creation of the Assembly, Hon. Sackey noted that government’s focus on education especially at the basic level was commendable and therefore advised that apathy on the part of other stakeholders “should be a thing of the past as we prepare our children for the competitive global workplace” adding that the focus should not be for “only exams sake but for quality and improved training of the child”.

Mr. Sackey was full of appreciation and praise to the 30 contingents selected from selected public and basic schools and private senior high schools in the municipality for defying the rainfall which began three minutes into the march past at about 8:55am to cheers and shouts from guests and the general public who had taken shelter in the office complex of the Assembly.

The MCE and the Kwabenya Police Commander, Superintendent Victoria Yamoah in the company and the Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Florence Esi Damali, the Municipal Coordinating Director, Martin Dassah and the Presiding Member, Hon. Edward Ayettey however stood in the rains under a canopy to receive the salute from the pupils.

 Hon Sackey disclosed that the municipality has been selected to benefit from the first batch of fifty of the 200 Senior High Schools to be built by the government and would be the only public senior high school in the municipality.

In her welcome address, Mrs Florence Damali advised the school children to not only memorize the National Pledge but to carefully reflect upon the words to make them a guiding principle for their lives as it will help to prove their worth as patriotic Ghanaians.