Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has given the assurance that government is committed to providing quality education for Ghanaians and has urged the youth to make education their priority.
He said it is only through education that the citizens could take control of their lives and subsequently banish poverty out of Ghana.
The Vice President was speaking at a grand durbar of the chiefs and people of Akwatia on the occasion of this year’s Denkyembour Festival at Akwatia.
The appeal from the Vice President came from the Akwatiahene, who had criticised the lackadaisical attitude of the youth of his area towards education; something that he thinks should be looked at to save the situation, blaming their attitude on the high rate of illegal mining at Akwatia and its surroundings.
He said the Government had initiated a number of projects which, over a period of time, would help increase access and bring improvements in the educational system.
Vice President Amissah-Arthur said education remained the key to human progress and, therefore, advised the youth of Akwatia to take their studies seriously in order to become better citizens in future.
Mr Kwesi Amissah Arthur observed that, when the nation's youth take their education serious, Ghana would have a brighter future, and he pledged the government's continuous support in making education very attractive to the youth. Adding it was in that direction that government has decided to make education attractive to the youth of Akwatia.
He said in order to show commitment government had earmarked the establishment of a Community Day Senior High School at Takrowase near Kade.
On the issue of water in the area, Mr Amissah-Arthur said government was committed to solving the perennial water challenges facing the people of Akwatia and its environs and also assured the people of Akwatia that very soon works would begin on their bad roads since they had been captured in the cocoa roads project.
The festival also marked the twentieth anniversary of the enstoolment of Osaberima Kofi Boateng III, the Akwatiahene.
On his part Osaberima Boateng called on his people to endeavour to cast the spirit of apathy into the "dustbin of history" and to live together as a family to help improve conditions in the area.
He urged the people to learn to leave in peace and unity and also help to sustain the communal labour spirit that was re-ignited at the recent National Sanitation Day exercise so that everything would go on well in the area of sanitation.