Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) as part of its mandate to build two schools and two CHPS compound every year, has built three classroom blocks for Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) and Cherubim and Seraphim School in Cape Coast to enhance education in the area.

The assembly has also completed another three classroom block for St Monica’s Girls School and waiting to award that of Church of Christ School to contractors to start work.

According to the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of the area, Mrs. Pricilla Arhin Korankye, the construction of Dahia and Esuekyir CHPS compound is ongoing while Duakor, Abakam and Effutu Mampong’s will soon be awarded on contract.

She disclosed that the assembly asked the education and health directorates to give out the schools and communities with pressing needs for health facilities in the metropolis, adding that is how the schools and communities were selected as beneficiaries.

The MCE hinted that the directive was given by government to all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in 2014 to embark on the mandate because government wants education to move on in the country.

She thus appealed to parents and teachers to do their part to ensure that education, particularly in Cape Coast, receives the needed uplift.

“Education is cost sharing, each and every person should do its part so that education will improve in Ghana,” she added.

Mrs. Arhin Korankye pointed out that Cape Coast has it all when it comes to education, adding that all we need is for our children to study hard to be able to benefit from the facilities.

“Parents also have the duty to make the education of their wards their priority because without education, even though we have all the schools, we cannot develop if our own people are not educated,” she advised.

The MCE later presented 50 dual desks each to the schools as well as laptops, scanners and projectors and USB devices to facilitate Information Communication Technology (ICT) training in the schools including Mfantsipim School.