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March 11, 2016
Ace highlife musician Amakye Dede
assists 12-year-old amputee
Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A), Nov. 20, GNA – Ace Ghanaian highlife
musician, Abrantie Amakye Dede, has offered to pay the
school fees of a 12-year-old amputee, Clement Agyemang, who
lost one of his legs to a strange disease in 1998 at
Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Master Agyemang, a primary four pupil of Pael Preparatory
School at Dormaa-Ahenkro, who plays football with his peers
and rides bicycle on one leg, caught the eyes of the music
star while he was attending a funeral at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
In a telephone interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA),
Abrantie Amakye Dede, who had already offered 500,000 cedis
to cover the boy's second term fees, explained that he was
touched by the boy's plight and decided to assist him to go
through his education.
"Watching the boy, I noticed that he has inherent talents
and I thought the best way to unearth the talents was to
provide him with education", Abrantie Amakye Dede said.
He noted that many handicapped persons could be assisted to
establish themselves rather than being left on the streets
begging for alms.
The star musician said he was prepared to assist the boy for
as long as he would be able to do so.
Meanwhile, the boy's father, Mr Kwame Agyemang, has
expressed gratitude to the musician for the gesture and
promised to provide the boy with the necessary parental
guidance to ensure that Amakye Dede's effort did not go to
waste.
GNA
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