Tepa (Ash), May 27, GNA - Tepa Secondary School in the Ahafo-Ano North District is to benefit from Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) sponsored projects worth several millions of cedis to improve infrastructure facilities in the school. The projects include an administrative block, two-storey block of classrooms and the completion of a one-storey Headmaster's bungalow, which was started in 1974 but abandoned in 1979.

Mr Fosuaba Mensah Banahene, Administrator of GETFund, announced this when he paid a day's working visit to discuss problems facing the school with the Tepa Traditional Council, the staff and the Board of Governors at Tepa at the weekend. He praised the Traditional Council, the District Assembly and the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) for their contributions to the school, particularly in the provision of a block of classrooms and a computer laboratory. The Administrator presented a personal cheque for 10 million cedis to be used as seed money for the establishment of scholarship scheme for needy but brilliant students. Mr Banahene appealed to the Traditional Council, the Assembly, individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to contribute to the fund.

Nana Adusei Atwenewaah Ampem I, Omanhene of Tepa, thanked the GETFund Administrator for the quick response to the problems facing the school. He expressed regret that even though the Ministry of Education in a letter signed by Reverend Ama Afo Blay, former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), approved upgrading of Tepa Secondary School to a model school in 2003, nothing had been done about it and appealed to the government to investigate the matter and ensure that the school was upgraded.

Nana Atwenewaah Ampem said the school, originally a teacher training college, which was converted into a secondary school in 1971 has total enrolment of 1,619 students and 60 tutors, but lacked facilities like potable water, adequate classrooms, dormitories, transport, library, administrative block, science laboratory and masters' quarters.