[ 2012-07-19 ]

President J.E.A Mills

Gov't has measurable record of achievements - Mills
President John Evans Atta Mills has said his
administration has an enviable measurable record
of achievements.

He said in spite of the significant successes
chalked up by the government, in three-and-a-half
years, it would not relent on its efforts to make
more development projects available to the
people.

President Mills, who was inaugurating a
three-storey 18-unit classroom block at the
Salvation Army Cluster of Schools at
Laterbiokorshie in Accra Wednesday said: “Those
who said we have not done anything can see
everything for themselves.”

The President said he recognised education as the
bedrock of the country’s human resource
development base and that “we will not lose sight
of the significant role education plays in our
forward march agenda.”

He said the government would continue the crusade
to eliminate schools under trees and transform
them into modern educational institutions that
were housed under brick and mortar.

He, therefore, urged all children to take
advantage of those opportunities to educate
themselves to enable them meet the challenges of
the time.

President Mills enumerated some of the
achievements of the government in the areas of the
supply of laptops, expansion of electricity supply
to schools, increase in school feeding fees,
supply of school uniforms, among others and said
more development would be directed to that
sector.

The Minister of Education, Mr Lee Ocran, in a
remark, said the edifice was a practical
intervention of the Better Ghana agenda. He added
that “investing in people means educating people
and solving their needs.” He said governance was
about work that would improve the lot of the
majority of the people, but not “wasting time on
peripheral issues.”

In a welcome address, the Accra Metropolitan Chief
Executive, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, said the shift
system had outlived its usefulness.

He added that hitherto, about 89,000 pupils were
not getting access to education due to the shift
system. He said although, the decision to
eliminate the shift system posed some initial
challenges, the metropolitan assembly was able to
overcome those challenges and made a bold decision
to end the system.

Source - Citifmonline

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