Assin Nsuta (C/R), June 7, GNA - Fourteen Junior Secondary Schools in the Assin District of the Central Region scored zero percent in the 2003 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

In this regard the Assin Students and Associates of the University of Education, Winneba and the University of Cape Coast on Sunday launched an education campaign to improve the situation. Under the programme the students, with the assistance of the Assin District Assembly would use their two weeks vacation to teach in some selected JSS in the district and also sensitise the people on the dangers of the HIV/AIDS, among others.

Launching the programme, which started from Monday (today), June 7, the presiding member of the assembly, Mr Anthony Arthur said the assembly had, within the past few years sponsored 56 teachers in the training college and are currently teaching in the district. He appealed to the people to come together as one body towards the development of the district and also urged them to honour their tax obligation to enable the assembly to generate more revenue for development projects in the area.

Mr. William Adjei-Bannin, Central Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) told the people to forget the divisive tendencies in the past where people from the three traditional areas regarded themselves as different people.

He urged them to stop their "pull him down attitude" and asked them to have the conviction that, "if a brother from Assin North gets a position, it is the same as the one from the South and therefore, needed the support of the people of the whole area."

The assembly member for Assin Nsuta, Mr. Ali Fourdjour, who volunteered to release his building for accommodation of the 30 students for the programme appealed to the people to take their studies seriously to justify the huge investment by the government and parents. Dr. Tonny Atta-Bossompim, patron of the UCC branch said because of the low standard of education in the area, only a handful of Assin students are able to make it to the universities and other tertiary institutions and therefore, urged both students and parents to take education serious.