Atimpoku (E/R), Feb. 11, GNA - The Asuogyaman District Assembly on Friday presented 1,000 dual desks to the District Directorate of Education for distribution to 23 basic schools in the district. The desks, which cost 50,000 Ghana cedis, were funded from the District Development Fund (DDF).

Handing over the desks at Atimpoku, the Asuogyaman District Chief Executive, Mr Johnson Ahiakpor, appealed to teachers in the district to motivate their pupils to work hard to ensure that no school would record zero per cent at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). He said the assembly had embarked upon improvement in education structures in the area with the construction of new school blocks for deprived schools and would gradually ensure that all the schools are well furnished to promote effective teaching and learning. Mr Ahiakpor said the Assembly would also be channelling some of its resources to motivate teachers.

Receiving the desks the Asuogyaman District Director of Education, M= r Brownsford Asamoah, thanked the assembly for the gesture and promised to ensure that the schools who needed the furniture receive them. He said no basic school outside Akosombo has a staff common room and cupboards in the classrooms, a situation that compels teachers to rest under trees.

Mr Asamoah appealed to the District Assembly to consider the provision o= f those facilities in the very near future. In a related development, Mr Ahiakpor presented five packets of roofing sheets to the Asuogyaman Moslem Academy at the banks of the Volta River at Atimpoku for the roofing of the school. The school teaches English and Arabic. He promised the community that the Assembly would support the expansion programme of the school with 100 bags of cement. Speaking through an interpreter, the patron of the school, Imam Abubakar Zakie, said the school was burnt down in 2005 and through the efforts of the youth in the community, they were able to reconstruct it.