Two Ghanaian graduate students Eddy Akita and Wisdom Mensah at Ohio University (OU) in the USA have donated seventy five (75) slightly used computers to the University of Education –Winneba (UEW) at a meeting of Ghanaian students held at the Athens campus of OU. The meeting was organized for the Ghanaian students to interact with the Vice Chancellor of UEW, Professor J. Anamuah Mensah, who is on a working visit to OU. Eddy Akita gave fifty pieces and Wisdom Mensah twenty five. Presenting the computers on behalf of the duo, Eddy Akita said that they were moved by the initiative of Professor J Anamuah- Mensah in trying to make University of Education –Winneba as an Information Technology (IT) Hub aimed at facilitating the promotion of quality education nationwide. The two students have put their resources together to ship the computers to Ghana by the middle of November.

The VC thanked the donors and called on all stakeholders to come on board in helping to achieve the education for all policy of the Government of Ghana. He described the gesture of the students as a step in the right direction and he further stated that individuals and corporate bodies must always come to play their supportive roles in the society as the burden of realizing education for all Ghanaians cannot be borne alone by the government.

In an exclusive interview with Eddy Akita, a former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency, who in a period of four years served in the capacity as the Deputy Defense Minister and also as the Deputy Minister of Fisheries during the first term of the NPP Administration, said “The computers are meant to augment the effort of the UEW administration in boosting computer literacy in Ghana through the educational programs of the University”. He further stated that the donation was their “widows’ mite” towards the promotion of education in Ghana.