THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has renovated the St. Paul Junior High School (JHS) at Soe in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region.
The three-unit classroom project valued at GH¢135, 000.00 will help relieve the children from learning in a classroom which was hitherto, dilapidated.
Speaking at the handover ceremony in Bolgatanga over the weekend, the MP said he rose to the support of the school after the Head teacher of the school, Michael Ayimbisah, made a passionate appeal to him to come to the aid of the school at its 60th anniversary held in November, last year.
According to him, he was saddled when his attention was drawn to a damning issue about the facility which was on the verge of collapse, with lots of pupils lying on their bellies to take lessons in class.
He urged management of the school to ensure the facility was put into good use, so as to help the pupils harness their full potential in academic work.
Quality education, he stressed, was one of his major priorities, and he would ensure a good percentage of his share of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) was used in surmounting the dire education infrastructure challenges confronting the schools in the municipal.
On the issue of a stalled nine-unit classroom block at the Soe Primary School, a community self-initiated project, he pledged to take over the execution of the project, saying that, “if the Engineer at the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly can promise he will award this project on contract on my funds immediately, I will start tomorrow.”
He said calls for construction, renovation and expansion of school infrastructure projects had heightened, and he had taken steps to undertake the execution of scores of such projects across the length and breadth of the municipality.
“Four school infrastructure projects, including the 31st December Primary School in Tindonsobligo have been awarded on contract.
“I am satisfied that three of such projects have so far been completed, and they will be handed over very soon for use,” Mr Adongo noted.
Similarly, Mr Adongo is undertaking other school infrastructure projects, including a three-unit Day care in the cluster of schools at Anateem, and another one, according to him, would commence soonest at the Azolbisi community.
The legislator indicated the growing pupil population in the Municipality had put some huge pressure on the limited classrooms, and that, more expansion works would be prosecuted to give the children befitting education.
The Head teacher, Mr Ayimbisah, commended the MP for the helping to renovate the school.
FROM FRANCIS DABRE DABANG, BOLGATANGA
