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TASTECH inaugurates a GH¢ 1.4 million administration block

By GNA
Education TASTECH inaugurates a GH 1.4 million administration block
MAY 25, 2017 LISTEN

Sunyani, May 25, GNA - A two-storey administration block funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) at GH¢ 1.4 million for the Twene-Amanfo Senior High/Technical School (TASTECH) was on Wednesday inaugurated in Sunyani.

The block among others consists of an Information-Communication-Technology (ICT) laboratory and a library on the top-floor, the Headmaster's office, other offices and the staff common room on the ground and first floors.

Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister in an inaugural address appealed to teachers to take keen interest in the moral upbringing of their pupils and students by inculcating in them sound moral values and habits to shape them to perform effective leadership roles in the future.

He also entreated them to strive to inculcate in particularly the adolescent and the youth the importance of virtues such as; honesty and respect for the elderly and to encourage them to desist from social vices like; armed robbery, drugging, alcohol abuse and sexual promiscuity.

Mr Asomah-Cheremeh implored teachers to deliver with commitment and dedication as their role among stakeholders in the effective implementation and success of the government's education policies was paramount.

The Regional Minister advised the students to use their times for purposeful learning to benefit them as individuals and the society at large.

Mr Michael Nsiah-Agyapong, the sixth Headmaster of the school expressed appreciation to all stakeholders whose efforts in diverse ways had made the completion and inauguration of block a reality.

He recalled the project was started in 2007 under ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor, nurtured by the late President John Evans Atta Mills, fostered by former President John Dramani Mahama and inaugurated in the reign of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Mr Nsiah-Agyapong appealed to the Regional Minister to assist by facilitating the tarring of the roads on the school campus and the construction of a hostel facility to accommodate especially the female students who came from outside the Sunyani Municipality.

TASTECH, located in the central business district of Sunyani was established as a 'Government Primary and Middle School' in 1930 under the then Ghana's colonial administrator for Western Ashanti, Sir John Maxwell, renamed High Street Primary and Middle School in the course of time until1981, when it was converted into a secondary/technical non-boarding institution.

GNA

By Daniel A. Ashietey/Christopher Tetteh, GNA

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