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BECE: Asuogyaman poised to top Eastern Region

The District Chief Executive for Asuogyaman District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Samuel Kwame Agyekum has indicated that the district which is poised to champion education in the Eastern Region has put in place strategies to see improvement in education in the District.

Date Created : 3/11/2019 6:06:11 AM : Story Author : William Dei-Gyau/Ghanadistricts.com

The strategies which include construction of classroom blocks for deprived Schools; provision of adequate teaching and learning materials including furnitures; organising extra and vacation classes for free; motivating teachers as well as students; resourcing the education directorate with logistics for supervision and the formation of the District Education Oversight Committee which overseers issues pertaining to education in the district.

The DCE made this observations in an interview with Ghanadistricts.com during the commissioning of a six unit classroom block with library, computer laboratories finished with twenty computers, a staff common room including the headmaster's office for the Senchi Ferry Methodist Junior high School and a three units kindergarten complex for Anum Anglican Basic School financed with funding from the District Assembly Common Fund and GETFund respectively last Friday.

Samuel Kwame Agyekum who assisted the commissioning exercise done by the Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kofi Kwakye Darfour was surprised the previous District Chief Executive could not complete the project initiated by his own government during the late former President John Evans Atta Mills’ administration, leaving the children to study under trees for the past eight years without any interventions.

The DCE revealed that "even though successive governments had played their role to improve education in the district, our results obtained from the basic education certificate exams over the years were relatively low but thank God we are seeing some improvement within this two years of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo led NPP administration under my watch as the District Chief Executive”.

Asuogyaman District scored 67 percent and ranked 17th in the 2017 West Africa Examination Council's BECE results released as well as the Eastern Regional ranking of Municipal and District performance under the year of review respectively, God being so good we were able to improve on our 2017 results after scoring 73 percent in the results released by the Examination governing body WAEC in 2018 BECE exams and ranking tenth in the Regional ranking, an indication of effort made and we are poised to champion the Region in no time" the DCE announced.

Samuel Kwame Agyekum who was wondering how issues relating to Education was handled by his predecessor surprisingly revealed that the District Education Oversight Committee was on break for the past six year before he took over as the head of the assembly in May 2017.

"Nananom I am still wondering how issues relating to Education in our district was handled by the previous government, it will surprise you to note that the District Education Oversight Committee (DEOC) which is responsible to make policy direction for education in our district was on break for the past six years before I took office in May 2017, there is no single records to show as evidence of meeting to discuss anything about our education in the past six years" He stated this in his address at the brief commissioning ceremony held at Senchi and Anum respectively.

He explained that the success chalked in the education sector is based on quality and timely interventions put in place by the District and the District Education Oversight Committee which has been reconstituted by the assembly.

"With the timely interventions by the District Education Oversight Committee the Assembly was able to approach a philanthropist who took responsibility of organizing extra classes, pay teachers to organise vacation classes for the then BECE candidates across the District, procuring a mathematical set, pens, pencils and rulers for over 1700 candidates, he again promised to purchase everything on the prospectus of any student who secure aggregate six to ten in the district which he has fulfilled his promise by purchasing all requirements on the prospectus of fifteen students who were able to acquire the above grade across the District and motivating each of them with Three Hundred Ghana cedis. This man his promised to increase his support this year to see significant improvement in the education of Asuogyaman" he noted.

The Regional Minister Eric Kofi Kwakye Darfour urged the education department to employ maintenance culture for the facility to stand the text of time after disclosing the cost of the projects to be GHS 450.000.00 for the Senchi Methodist JHS block and GHS345,000.00 for Anum Anglican Basic School block.

The Regional Minister together with the DCE again presented 100 desks to the Anum Presbyterian Vocational School.