Lifeline for Heman NVTI Centre
MR. KAAKYIRE Oppong Kyekyeku, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Afigya Kwabre, has pledged his administration's commitment to mobilising resources for the completion of the National Vocation Training Institute (NVTI) Satellite Centre at Heman-Buoho is completed within three months.
The DCE gave the assurance when a team from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), in the company of the Director of the NVTI, Mr. Stephen B. Amponsah, inspected the centre, which is currently operating from a rented premises.
The team, led by Mr. Santiago Moreno, is in Ghana to inspect NVTI facilities, and receive proposals from the NVTI as to how best the AECID could equip the various centres with equipment and tools.
The other member of the team was Mr. Nuno Carvalho, an external consultant.
The package, which comes as a fallout from the established relationship between Ghana and Spain over the years, is to upgrade facilities at the various NVTI centres to meet international standards.
The Afigya Kwabre Assembly, according to the DCE, was compelled to take up the construction of the four classroom block, in order not to lose the opportunity of accessing the AECID support, hence the priority he accorded the project, which was abandoned.
Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku appealed to the Spanish government to consider adopting the district, and give it the necessary push, in terms of development.
NVTI Director Amponsah commended the DCE for the interest shown in the project, which he said, would go a long way to give technical education a big push. He said the assembly's intervention was timely, because without a permanent structure, the AECID could not invest in the centre by way of equipment on rented premises.
According to the Director, permanent premises would ensure expansion programmes for the Centre. He described technical training as a master key to development, and called for support for its growth by all.
The Director also called on the assembly to consider improving on the access roads to the centre, and ensure the supply of electricity and source of water.
Mr. Amponsah lamented the encroachment of the 10-acre piece of land legally acquired in 1992 by the Centre, four acres of which has already been lost to encroachers in the process.
Meanwhile, DCE Oppong Kyekyeku has called for the layout of the project, threatening to demolish all structures on the said land acquired by the NVTI Centre.
According to him, vocational training really contributes to the socio-economic development in the country, and should be encouraged at all levels, to create employment for the youth.
The Heman-Buoho Satellite Centre of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), is being run by a management committee, inaugurated in March this year.
The eight-member committee, comprises Messrs Seth Oduro, NVTI representative, John Evans Ackon, Osei Poku, John Arthur, Assembly Member for the Ntiri-Buoho electoral area, Takyi Mensah, Fosu Amoateng, a representative from the Ghana Education Service, Odame and Ex-WO1 Paul Asikatoah.