Kumasi( Ashanti Region) 3-5-99

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has called on the management of State Insurance Company (SIC) to assist in the improvement of the falling standard of education in Asanteman.

The company could institute a scholarship scheme to enable intelligent and needy children from poor families get formal education from nursery to the tertiary level.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call when some members of the Board of Directors and Management of the SIC paid a courtesy call on him at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi.

He asked the management to ensure the early completion of their offices in Kumasi, the Opoku Ware II House, as a fitting monument to the late Asantehene who had the company dear at heart.

The Asantehene said the company could also assist the youth to learn new technological developments through the provision of computers to schools in the region or finance research programmes of the universities to encourage entrepreneurs, investors and other industrialists who are financially handicapped.

Mr Kwame Osei, a member of the board who led the delegation, on behalf of the management, presented assorted customary drinks, diaries of the company, a clock with the company's emblem and two million cedis to the Asantehene.