Aboabo No. 2 (B/A), May 2, GNA - The chiefs and people of the four Aboabo communities in the Dormaa Municipality have lauded President Mills' Action Year agenda and have declared their unflinching commitment and support towards its realization. The chiefs and people made the declaration at a durbar at Aboabo Salvation Army Senior High School when the sod was cut for the commencement of construction work on two projects estimated at GHC 1.44 million for the school.

The two Ghana Educational Trust Fund (GETFUND) projects comprise two storey buildings, one for Administration, Library and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre and the other being 12 additional classrooms and two staff bungalows for staff. The chief of Aboabo No. 4 and Adontenhene of Dormaa Traditional Council, Barima Okogyeatuo Agyeman, noted that the GETFUND package was the single most significant project in the 23-year old history of the school.

He commended the Dormaa Municipal Assembly for its prompt response by putting up a new classroom block to cater for the backlog of students caught up under the four-year SHS duration introduced by the previous government.

Flanked by three other Aboabo chiefs, Barima Okogyeatuo Agyeman, who chaired the sod-cutting ceremony, gave the assurance that the Aboabo communities would ensure the contractors delivered according to specifications.

He appealed to the contractors of the projects to use artisans, labourers and local materials from the project area to create jobs for the teeming artisans and unemployed youth in the area. The Dormaa Municipal chief Executive, Mr. Vincent Oppong Asamoah, noted Dormaa had enjoyed unprecedented development projects under the relatively short period of the Mills administration. "These good signs are indicative of a government that is poised to deliver on its promises by sharing development projects equitably to uplift the living standards of Ghanaians', the MCE stressed. The school's headmaster, Mr. Krobea Asante Korang, thanked the government, the Municipal Assembly and Aboabo traditional authorities for the projects, which he said when completed would help solve the office and classroom accommodation problems of the school. He announced that the school, which was begun as a community secondary school 23 years ago with only six students, now has a student population of 850.

Mr. Korang identified lack of means of transportation as a major problem confronting the school and appealed to the government to consider the school in the presentation of the next batch of school buses.

A consultant for the project, Mr. Adjei Marfo, announced the two projects would take 12 months to complete. He assured the people of maximum supervision of the projects to ensure good and quality work.