Mr. Kennedy Akoto, the Assemblyman for Nsuta East Electoral Area, has appealed to the Jasikan Municipal Assembly, to help complete the abandoned Ketsi M/A Basic School classroom block.
He said the construction project, which started in 2018, but abandoned was affecting the conducive teaching and learning environment of the school.
Mr. Akoto made the appealed via the Ghana News Agency (GNA), when the Agency visited the school to acquaint himself with the problems. The Assemblyman told GNA that the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) funded project which started seven years ago, stalled for reasons the Chief and opinion leaders of the community could not tell.
He said when he assumed office in January 2024, after winning his election as Assemblyman in December 2023, he, together with the Chief of the Ketsi community and some opinion leaders visited the then Jasikan Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mrs. Elizabeth Kesewaa Adjornor-Anim in her Office, to inquire about the abandoned project. Mr. Akoto said the MCE assured them that the project would be completed, but nothing happened during her turnure of office.
He said the completion of the six-unit classroom block with other ancillary facilities for the school would help protect the students and teachers’ desks, tables and chairs from intruders who often entered the classrooms and destroy these facilities due to the absence of doors and windows. Mr. Akoto said the project’s completion would also improve academic performance, as students who studied in decent and well-equipped classrooms tended to perform better academically.
Mr. James Awopayi, the Jasikan Municipal Co-ordinating Director and Caretaker MCE, when contacted by the GNA on the issue, said, though he was not privy to the school’s complaint, he would engage the Assembly’s Engineers to help resolve the problem.
The Ketsi M/A Basic School, which was established some sixty years ago, currently has 150 students from Basic one to Basic nine, who study under an uncompleted GETFund sponsored classroom block project and it has ten teachers.
Source: GNA
