According to him, facilities like the E-Blocks and Day Secondary Schools started by the Mahama administration, lack installations and educational accessories to make them sustainable and operational.

As a solution, the Minister has announced plans to provide dormitories for e-blocks and day schools constructed in challenging locations.

There have been several calls for the government to commit to the completion of projects in several sectors of the economy. 

In the education sector, some E-blocks under the community day schools project by the NDC government have been left unattended. 

Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, however says some of these projects are in locations inaccessible to targeted beneficiaries. 

He has thus assured that housing facilities would be added to convert them into boarding schools.

“There may be some e-blocks that we have not opened. But if you put an e-block, in the middle of the city, in Accra or Kumasi, it is a great investment. But if it is in the middle of nowhere in the jungle, six miles from the nearest village, we need to add dormitory blocks to make it operational for students to stay there. 

“They have not been abandoned but we’re improving them so that the good people of Ghana can benefit from the investment,” he said. 

The Minister was on a working visit to some schools in the Ejisu and the Bosomtwe municipalities. 

He made stops at the Ejisu-Adadientem Church of Pentecost, Ejisuman Senior High School and Bosomtwe Girls STEM Senior High School. 

Dr Adutwum reiterated the government’s commitment to improving the education sector. 

“With an enrollment of about 830,000 in 2017, now we are at 1.4 million plus. That is a great feat. But it took the vision and determination of the Ghanaian people supporting the president to make this vision a reality, and I advise the students to have a growth mindset that everything is possible,” he said.

Headmistress of Ejisuman Senior High School, Cassandra Osei Wusu, highlighted the school’s challenges and was grateful for the Minister’s swift intervention. 

“There is a lack of furniture, the dining hall tables and benches, bunk beds in the dormitory are inadequate, so students are struggling and it is affecting teaching and learning. We are so happy to have the minister in the school. We hope all that he promised will be fulfilled,” she said. 

Nana Brakatu II says three years since the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came to power, the community is yet to witness any development while other districts receive full support from the government.

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She said Amantin faced problems such as water crisis, no street light, poor market structure among others.

She has also called on the government to upgrade the Amantin health center to a hospital status to enhance quality health care since the population of the area has increased.

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She made the appeal during the 2019 celebration of  Kwafie Yam festival where she advised the youth to concentrate on their education  and desist from acts leading to teenage pregnancy and school dropout

According to him, the Authority has awarded many contracts, ranging from potable water projects, toilet facilities and school buildings among others over the period with every constituency benefiting from not less than three different projects.

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Mr Dankwa said this in an interview with Adom News after a stakeholder engagement between the MBDA and some Members of Parliament in the Eastern region.

“The Authority will terminate some contracts and re-award them to competent contractors. Many of such projects have been completed with others at various stages of completion while some have been abandoned,” he said.

To Mr Dankwa, the Authority will soon brand their projects in each constituency to prove ownership of their projects because most Ghanaians are not aware of projects initiated by the Authority.

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The MBDA under the Ministry of Special Initiatives Development is the legally mandated body to see to the implementation and disbursement of the One Million Dollar, One Constituency policy.

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The committee said it is unhappy over levels of work on many on-going and abandoned physical education infrastructure projects in SHSs being funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND).

It said it is determined to address the deficit in educational infrastructure in SHSs, as government seeks to improve on educational infrastructure to facilitate smooth running of the free SHS programme.

Mr William Agyapong Quaittoo, the Chairman of the Committee, made the request when the committee visited some SHSs in the Ahafo Senior High and Technical School and Ola Girls SHS at Kenyasi in the Ahafo Region on Tuesday.

Some 12 of the 20-member committee is on a three-day working visit to assess the impact and challenges confronting the implementation of the free SHSs in public SHSs in Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions.

Mr Quiattoo said inadequate physical infrastructure remains a key challenge confronting the free SHS programme, hence the need to sit down with the contractors and devise strategies to complete these government projects.

Many of the abandoned projects were about 70 per cent complete when the committees inspected them at the schools.

Meanwhile, Mr Gabriel Ofori-Mensah, the Headmaster of the Techiman Senior High School (SHS) has appealed to the committee to facilitate the employment of non-teaching staff for the school.

He said the school has a student population of 2,200 but had only three pantry workers and needed about 10 more, additional cooks, security and cleaners.

Mr Ofori-Mensah told the committee that many of the non-teaching staff had gone on retirement and ought to be replaced.

He appealed for the completion of the assembly hall complex, dining hall, boys and girls dormitories being put up by the GETFUND.

Mr Ofori-Mensah said the school needed additional 1,400 beds for the boarding students and more classroom blocks and 250 tables and 500 benches to furnish the dining hall.

Source: GNA

According to him, the absence of a DCE in the area is making life difficult for the people as they are unable to undertake any project.

He noted that, the community lacks basic amenities such as good road, potable water and  network connection.

The two months old NPP administration has so far appointed only four MMDCE’s and it is unclear as to when the remaining MMDCE’s would be appointed considering the current grassroots agitations on the ongoing recruitment exercise.

But Mr Alfred Annor, has asked service providers such as the telecommunication companies, the Electricity Company of Ghana and the Ghana Water Company to turn their attention to Kadewaso and provide them with the needed services to make life easier for them.

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Source: Ghana/Adom News/Emmanuella Ablah Aforkpa