Educational issues should be apolitical -MP

Kwasi Ameyaw Cheremeh, MP Sunyani East

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani East, Kwasi Ameyaw-  Cheremeh has expressed worry about  the fallen standards of the country's education and has, therefore, called on all stakeholders to jointly come to its rescue.

Mr. Ameyaw-Cheremeh noted that issues concerning the country's education should be apolitical, because the development of every country basically has to do with how educated its citizens are, particularly on technology.

'We can politicize everything in Ghana but not our education, there must be a collective approach to improve the educational sector for rapid socioeconomic and technological advancement', he emphasized.

The Sunyani East MP said this when he commissioned a 3-Unit Classroom block for the Atuahenekrom M/A Primary School, a farming community in the Sunyani Municipality.

The commissioning of the project was strangely done without the normal funfairs, despite the suggestion by the Assembly member for the area, Charles Indiago and some chiefs and elders of the community to organize a durbar to commemorate the commissioning ceremony.

According to Mr. Ameyaw-Cheremeh, the suggestion to organize a durbar could be political advantage to him, in his quest to retain the seat, but the priority was for the school children and the teachers to have a more comfortable place for teaching and learning.

'Politics is about development, and I was given the mandate to articulate the needs of the constituents for remedy, so after the completion of the project, there is no need to wait whilst the children study under trees and suffer under the current harsh weather condition, just because of political gains', the MP noted.

The 3-unit classroom block was built at the cost of GH¢45,000 through Ameyaw-Cheremeh's share of the MP's HIPC fund, after the school and the community had requested for it. He said the provision of the classroom block will improve teaching and learning, and urged the pupils to take advantage of the school and study hard to become great leaders of the country in future.

The MP promised to provide electricity to the school, so that the children could organize themselves for evening studies, whereas teachers who live around the school could organize evening classes for them after normal class hours.

The head teacher of the school, Mr. William Boateng commended the MP for the quick response to their need, adding that the classroom block has come at the right time to relieve the burden on teachers, who have to teach at overcrowded classrooms, which does not auger well for effective teaching and learning.

Mr. Boateng appealed to the MP to assist in furnishing the classrooms with tables and chairs, whilst the government should also extend the school feeding programme to the Atuahenekrom M/A primary school, because most children in the school hardly get food to eat when they attend school.

The Twafohene of Atuahenekrom, Nana Kwadwo Baah expressed the excitement of the chiefs and the community for the classroom block, explaining that initially, teachers abandoned the school because the classrooms were in a deplorable state.