The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Lower Manya Krobo Constituency in the Eastern Region, who also serves as the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has handed over a 16-unit dormitory block to Krobo Girls Senior High School.

Simon Kweku Tetteh handed over the completed 16-unit dormitory block to the school on Friday.

The facility, aside from the 16 accommodation units, comes with a box room, washrooms, and an ironing base.

The need for the block, the MCE noted, arose from the need to expand accommodation facilities to house the teeming beneficiaries of the free SHS policy.

"This will increase the intake [of fresh students] at Krobo Girls. Students will be comfortable going about their academic work," he said.

Aside from the dormitory block, a 12-unit classroom block under GETFund and a Home Economics Department have been completed and were earlier handed over to the school.

Mr. Tetteh said a 12-unit classroom block and a 12-seater toilet facility fitted with biogas had also been handed over to Akro Senior High School.

At Manya Krobo Senior High School, the MCE said a 12-unit and 6-unit classroom block, together with a 10-seater toilet facility, had been handed over to the school.

These educational infrastructures, Mr. Tetteh asserted, underscore the NPP government's commitment to infrastructural development in the educational sector, adding that over 80 projects had been completed in the municipality under his tenure as Assembly Chief.

He stressed that these positioned him as the ideal candidate for Lower Manya Krobo Constituency to represent them in the next parliament.

"I'm making an appeal to the people of Lower Manya Krobo that the only appreciation we can show to this current government is to make sure that for the first time, we vote for an NPP MP to take over from the 32 years of them getting an NPP MP, and we're hoping that Dr. Bawumia will be fully supported and become the president in January 2025," he said.

He expressed his utmost gratitude to the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, the Vice President, and the education minister for ensuring that the project sees the light of day.

The MCE, who has executed and completed about 80 projects in the municipality, noted in an interview that it was his joy to see development in his area.

According to him, education has always been an adrenaline that runs through him, thus his commitment to developing schools in his municipality.

According to Simon Kweku Tetteh, expanding boarding facilities in the various second-cycle schools in the municipality was necessary to support the Free SHS policy the NPP government initiated.

In an appeal, he asked his constituents to vote massively for him as a Member of Parliament and for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as president to further develop the constituency.