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Isaac Kwame Asiamah commissions a classroom block for the Betinko Community.

The people of Betinko, a community in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti have received a befitting classroom block to augment existing ones as enrollment surges.

Date Created : 8/29/2023 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Ghanadistricts.com

The 3-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities (Library, Staff Common Room, and Headteacher’s Office was commissioned today 22nd August 2023 amid great enthusiasm from the indigenes, staff, and pupils.

Miss Ama Adwubi Asafu-Adjaye, the District Director of Education thanked Mr. Asiamah and the DCE, Isaac Kofi Marfo for ameliorating the plight of parents and the kids.

She noted that the earlier building bore a semblance of a death trap for all who used the facility.

The education capo asked the political duo to extend its tentacles to other communities that are faced with the same infrastructural challenges.

She acknowledged the vastness of the district but asked for more to be done.

Nana Frimpong Bediako, the Odikro of the Community couldn’t hide his joy.

He patted Hon. Isaac Asiamah on the back for a sterling performance under his leadership as a Member of Parliament.

“Hon. Asiamah, before my ascension, I had heard a lot of your exploits, but today, I have had a feeling of the same”, he added.

Nana Frimpong promised to build an ultramodern ICT center to complement the new edifice for a better education environment.

Addressing the charges, Hon. Isaac Kofi Marfo admonished users of the facility, more especially the teachers, to make maintenance a routine habit.

He stated that the over 500 communities in Mponua have been a burden to his office as everyone wants a pound of the cake at any given point in time.

He said his office and that of the Member of Parliament are working closely to put up such infrastructure for the benefit of all and sundry.

Isaac Asiamah thanked the beneficiary community for showing love and kindness to him all these years.He asked for prayers and strength to do more for his constituents.

The MP noted that, since he ascended office, he has built schools in almost every electoral area.

“The teachers' quarters, where the teachers are staying is my handiwork” he stated.

“I started a stadium in Nyinahin, I lobbied for Agenda 111 hospital, and next month, the first-ever Nursing training school in the Atwima enclave will be commissioned in Tanodumase.

Nana Bediako, my job as the MP is to lobby for projects and build a vibrant society where parents and their kids will have a bright future”, he added.

Hon. Asiamah adding to his exploits in the constituency gave respite to twenty (20) students who wrote to his office for financial assistance to further their education.

“Nana Frimpong and all who have gathered here, just this year alone, I have given financial support to fifty (50) students totaling a whopping amount of Ghc 92,403, and in all about 1,909 students have benefitted from my educational support since 2005”, he noted.

The MP also presented an unspecified amount to Miss Patience Opoku from Mpasatia who also called on him to get start-up capital to commence a mobile money business.

The beneficiaries were from communities in the district who were seeking higher education at the tertiary level.

The parents of the beneficiaries expressed gratitude to the MP for his exceptional support to brilliant but needy students.

The MP, together with the chiefs, media, clergy, and indigenes commissioned the project amid drumming and dancing.