A 205-million-cedi computer training Centre for the Amos Okra Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Junior Secondary School at Sakora-Wonoo in the Kwabre District of Ashanti has been opened.

The centre, which has 40 computers bought at the cost of ?200 million were provided by Technology UK, a London-based NGO in Collaboration with Omari Computer Systems based in Accra, while the School Management Committee (SMC) renovated the building at the cost of five million cedis.

Inaugurating the centre, Mr. Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, said time had come for Ghanaians to take advantage of information technology to broaden their horizon.

He, therefore, urged the people to invest in the education of Their children for them to become computer literate and said the girl-child especially needed education to ensure the liberation of women, and ensure improvement in their lives.

He advised the children to make good use of the centre to Enhance their academic performance.

Mr Boafo expressed concern about the high rate of indiscipline In schools especially in second cycle schools as well as religious extremism,which had brought in destruction of property.

He therefore, charged Parent-Teacher Association (PTAs) and School Management Committees (SMCs) to combine and fight against the indiscipline and other forms of social vices.

Nana Kwame Asante-Frimpong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre, said the government would continue to provide the basic needs of the people especially the creation of jobs for the youth and tackle their health needs comprehensively.

He advised the youth to refrain from involving themselves in chieftaincy disputes and other criminal activities so as to help sustain peace and stability and ensure accelerated development.

Mr Samuel Benefo, an elder of the SDA Church, noted that the opening of the centre was to assist with the studies of the pupils and also get a practical feeling of how to use the computer as a means of making pupils in basic schools computer literate.

He advised the youth to refrain from pre-marital sex so as to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS and concentrate on their studies. - GNA