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Lower Manya Krobo Education Directorate to boast of permanent office

The Municipal Education Directorate of the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly is yet to boast of a permanent office after some forty-four years of operations by next year.

Date Created : 2/6/2019 12:16:29 AM : Story Author : William Dei-Gyau/Ghanadistricts.com

This hope comes after the Municipal Chief Executive of the area Simon Kwaku Tetteh breaks the grounds yesterday for the construction of a permanent office for the education directorate which has been operating from a rented apartment since its inception in 1975.

The new edifice which is situated at Kpong opposite Our Lady of Fatima School will host the office of the Municipal Education Director, and all other offices and facility that makes a complete directorate of the Ghana Education Service.

The MCE in his brief address during the sod cutting ceremony appreciated the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo for the trust reposed in him to lead the developmental agenda of such a great Municipality.

He stated that "the Nana Akufo Addo led NPP government through the Municipal Assembly under my leadership will work very hard to uplift the standard of education in the Municipality, we have started the initiations and commissioning of some classroom block for schools in the Municipality this our objective can't be achieved without giving our Municipal Education Directorate a befitting office for its operations which is to completed by 2020 January.

He then assured the gathering of his commitment to continue with the transformational agenda he has initiated to uplift of his local economy.

On behalf of the Municipal Education Director of the Ghana Education service Madam Agnes Akweley Attipoe who represents the Municipal Education Director applauded the MCE for his bold decision to help relieve the officer at the directorate from the stress they go through daily in delivering their mandate to see the upgrade in the standard of education in the Municipality for the past forty-four years believing that the project will be completed on time to house the Directorate to enhance its operations.

The short ceremony's was graced by officers from the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly led by the Municipal Coordinating Director, Mrs. Jemima Apedo Kallikrates.

Others were officers from the Municipal Education Directorate, the Constituency Executives of the new Patriotic party NPP in Lower Manya Krobo Constituency and cross section of the general public.