The Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region has presented a number of furniture items to the Yilo Krobo Education Directorate as part of its commitment to reducing the furniture deficit and providing quality education through effective teaching and learning in the municipality.
The furniture, which included 94 teachers’ tables and chairs, 52 hexagonal tables and chairs for the kindergarten, 124 dual desks and 220 mono desks with metallic frames, was purchased from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) 10 per cent budgetary allocation for all basic schools for 2024.
Directorate
At the handing over to the education directorate, the Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Francis Akumatey Addo, who was accompanied by the Municipal Coordinating Director, Abdul Husseni Rasheed; the Municipal Finance Officer, Albert Fiifi Amakye; the Municipal Planning Officer, Adu Kwabena and the Procurement Officer, Florence Tsotsoo Armah, lauded President John Dramani Mahama’s commitment to providing quality education to every Ghanaian child of schooling age.Ghana travel guide
He said the President and his team were aware that education was the key to the development of human resources and would therefore continue to support all educational institutions in the country, with school management also expected to deliver to expectations.
First set
Mr Addo said the presentation of the furniture formed the first set being given out, based on the first-, second-, and third-quarter allocations, with a firm assurance that more would be given when the assembly received subsequent allocations.
Mr Addo, who is also a professional teacher, stressed that no pupil or student should sit on the bare floor during the teaching and learning process.
In the same way, no learner should write an examination on the laps, as those days were far gone.
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Furniture deficit
The Education Director, John Kwame Gasu, who received the furniture on behalf of the directorate, thanked the President through the assembly, assuring that the recipient schools would maintain them to serve learners.
He said the furniture deficit was quite huge and appealed to the assembly for timely supply of furniture to the schools when funds were released to the assembly.
