Catholic Church to support government to improve on education

Abakrampa (C/R), Dec. 17, GNA - The Catholic church in Ghana has initiated a programme to help government to improve on the quality of education in the country.

Under the programme, which takes off in 2010, lessons prepared by some selected lecturers from the university based on the syllabi of the Ghana education service would be sent to schools in all parts of the country, especially those in the rural areas, where facilities for quality education are lacking.

His eminent Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson, the newly appointed President of the Peace and Justice Council of the Vatican announced this at Abakrampa, in the Central Region, during a grand durbar of the chiefs and people of the Abura Traditional Area in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District.

The durbar was organized in honour of the Cardinal, who hails from the area on his appointment to that high office and also for his contributions towards the development of the area and the country as a whole.

Cardinal Turkson said the Catholic Church was concerned about the falling standard of education in the country and was determined to support the government to raise standards.

He said when the programme takes off, problems such as inadequate staffing and the lack of text books and materials, which were some of the attributes for the decline in education, would be solved.

He said the Turkson brothers and sisters (his siblings) were constructing a library complex with an Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre at Nyanfeku Ekroful, their home town, near Abura Dunkwa.

The library is in memory of their brother, Dr. John Archie Turkson, a scientist, who died in a plane crash in 2000.

The Cardinal said they were also considering projects such as an amphitheatre and a modern junior and senior high schools for the area and also, a citrus processing machine, to assist farmers to add value to their produce.

Nana Nkwefi VIII, Gyasehen of the traditional area advised the youth to make the Cardinal their role model and learn from his achievements.

Nana Nyanfeku Nyieku I, Chief of Nyanfeku Ekroful appealed to the Cardinal to help the area to get a vocational institute.

Mr Kwamina Baiden, a businessman said the Cardinal was the second clergy to bring honour to the area, saying the Very Rev. Gaddiel Acquaah from Abakrampa was the first Ghanaian to chair the synod of the Methodist church.

Cardinal Turkson was enstooled a chief under the name, nana Asomdwe Brempon Appiah Turkson I.

GNA