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Krobos urged to support government
Odumase, Oct. 29, Ghanadot/GNA - The Eastern Regional
Minister, Mr Kwadwo Affram-Asiedu, has called on the people
of Odumase to reflect soberly on the performance of the
government and support it.
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people of Manya Krobo to
climax the Ngmayem festival of the Manya Krobo Traditional
Area, the Regional Minister told the people that the
government's performance so far had brought relief to many
people and this showed that it was a government that had the
interest of all at heart irrespective of their political
inclination.
He mentioned the capitation grant, school feeding programme,
free bus ride and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)
and developmental projects aimed at improving the status of
the people as a mark of good governance to move the nation
forward.
Mr Affram-Asiedu urged the people to embrace the NHIS since
it was a way for the poor and deprived to access good
healthcare.
The Minister for Lands and Forestry, Ms Esther Obeng-Dapaah,
said a land secretariat would be set up at Odumase to
promote sustainable forest management.
She said government recognized the contribution of Krobos
whose labour in farming had fed Ghanaians all these years
and would therefore ensure that their needs were met.
Mr Obeng-Dapaah, who is the Member of Parliament for Abirem
and the only female MP from the Eastern Region, advised the
women to send their girl-child to school because the
"kitchen is no more the preserve for women".
The Konor of the Manya-Krobo Traditional Area, Nene Sackite,
expressed regret that the response to the education
endowment fund in the area was not favourable whiles
education standard kept declining.
He said since its establishment, the fund had helped 85
needy students from the basic level to the tertiary level
and could have done better to improve the standard of
education in the area if people had responded positively to
the appeal for funds.
Nene Sackite expressed concern that most of the schools in
the area scored zero per cent in this year's Basic Education
Certificate Examination (BECE) whiles only two candidates in
the whole district had aggregate six.
He appealed to well meaning Krobos to help redeem the image
of education in the area.
Nene Sackite said since Agomanya was credited as one of the
six communities in Ghana with the highest prevalence rate in
HIV/AIDS plans were far advance for the traditional council
to establish an institute of professional counselling in
Odumase to be manned by clinical psychologist to deal with
the problem.
GNA
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