SEVEN out of the 20 six-unit classroom projects which are meant to augment classroom facilities in selected senior high schools in the northern region have been completed and handed over to the beneficiary schools.
The initiative is expected to ease pressure on the limited classroom facilities in the beneficiary schools, particularly, as the schools have admitted fresh students for the 2010/11 academic year.
The projects are located at the Walewale Senior High School, Gambaga Senior High and Girls Schools, Zabzugu Senior High, Salaga Senior High and Islamic and Business Senior High Schools in Tamale. The projects were awarded on contract in June this year. The Architectural Engineering Services Limited (AESL) supervised the projects.
Speaking at a ceremony to hand over the GH¢517,000 projects to the Islamic and Business Senior High Schools in Tamale, the Northern Regional Minister, Mr Moses Magbenba said the completion of the projects was a clear manifestation of the government’s resolve to address the inadequate classroom facilities in schools.
According to him, seven more of such projects would be completed in a week’s time and urged the beneficiary schools to take good care of the facilities.
“We are solving the problems gradually and I think by the close of November we would complete all the projects; for me we are just fulfilling our campaign promises,” he said.
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Joseph Yeleh Chireh said the government was on course with the provision of the needed facilities to improve on quality education in the country.
He said the government was equally finding ways of motivating teachers to give of their best.
The Manager of Nana Nyarko Enterprise, Mr Albert Nyarko, said although the work encountered a few challenges at the Business Senior High School project site, it did not affect the quality of work.
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