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Asantehene lauded for
educational innovations
Joseph Kwabena Onyinah,
Kumasi, April 24, Ghanadot/GNA
- Ashanti Regional Director of Education, has lauded Otumfuo
Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, for
initiating the educational fund, which
has significantly improved education delivery, which
is the key to manpower development
in the country.
He said through the Otumfuo Educational Fund, a lot of
schools in deprived areas had seen infrastructural
development in the form of
standard school blocks, libraries, teachers’ quarters as
well as incentive packages for teachers.
Besides the fund, the educational sector has received a
boost under the Promoting Partnership with Traditional
Authorities Project (PPTAP) which
is also under the aegis of Otumfuo.
In collaboration with the World Bank, the PPTAP has
facilitated the construction,
reconstruction and rehabilitation of 100 primary
school buildings in deprived communities in the
Region.
Mr. Onyinah, who was speaking in an interview with the
Ghana News Agency (GNA), in Kumasi, on Friday, said
teachers’ residential quarters,
books and other stationery as well as borehole
water systems had also been provided in beneficiary
schools to enhance teaching and
learning.
He was full of praise for Otumfuo for not limiting the
fund to only the Ashanti Region but to the whole country,
saying “one thing that has
actually moved me about Otumfuo’s fund is the
fact that it transcends ethnic and geographical
boundaries to allow children in
other regions also to benefit.”
Mr. Onyinah further stated that many brilliant but needy
students had been able to commence, continue and complete
their education through
scholarships instituted by the fund.
He expressed felicitations to the Otumfuo on his decade
long rule and wished him long life to continue to actualize
his visionfor the betterment of the Asante Kingdom.
GNA
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