THE Northern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Elizabeth De-Souza, has taken a swipe at authorities of the Dakpema Metropolitan Assembly and the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Cluster of Schools in Tamale for non-performance and negligence of duty.
This is when the director led the Deputy Regional Minister, Mr San Nasamu Asabigi, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alhaji Abdulai Haruna Friday, and the Metropolitan Director of Education, Alhaji Shaani Abdul-Rahman to the schools to mark ‘My First Day at School’.
In the case of the Dakpema school, Mrs De-Souza expressed disappointment over the inability of the authorities to maintain the furniture and infrastructure in the school.
She wondered what the authorities used the Capitation Grant for, saying “you must use the funds judiciously”.
Apparently angry at the sight of a good number of classroom furniture that were packed behind some classrooms begging for maintenance, the director ordered the metropolitan directorate of education not to consider any requests for provision of furniture by the school until the authorities put things right.
‘You must do well to use the funds to reinforce your own doors and windows; if I am the metropolitan director of education, I would not mind you if you put in a request for classroom furniture,” she stated.
Mrs De-Souza advised the School Management Committee and the authorities to hold an emergency meeting to repair the future.
“Let us maintain our classroom furniture; infact until you maintain the old ones nobody would give you new ones,” she further stated.
At the SDA cluster of schools, the director expressed dissatisfaction about the unclean environment, saying “this is a big minus for you.”
Mrs De-Souza was not happy with the authorities for keeping the school compound dirty stressing that “infact you people have disgraced me and what I have seen this morning is bad. I urge you to change your attitude towards work so that the next time I come here, I would see things in a better shape than this.
For his part, Mr Asabigi told the authorities of the schools to work hard to help improve on educational standards in the metropolis.
New pupils were presented with souvenirs, fruit drinks and biscuits.
At the Dakpema School, the authorities recorded 25 new pupils for primary one while the SDA Primary A and B had recorded 68 pupils as of 10:00 am.
Mrs De-Souza later visited schools at Parishei, Jerigu and Duunyin all peri-urban communities.
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