Navrongo (UE), Jan. 21, GNA - The Kassena Nankana District Assembly last year sponsored 678 students with 242.5 million cedis. They included teacher trainees, medical students, student nurses and some physically challenged.

The sponsorship covered the purchase of books, pocket money and transport fare to and from school.

Mr G.H. Dan-Yare, District Chief Executive, said this when he addressed the People's Assembly at Navrongo on Tuesday.

He said education was important to the people and the assembly was trying to improve its standard by training more teachers and helping the poor financially.

Mr Dan-Yare said the Assembly, with the help of communities and the World Bank, had drilled 39 boreholes and put up seven-seater KVIPs in schools and the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital.

He said 60 more boreholes would be drilled this year and ten seater- KVIPs built at various primary and second cycle institutions. He however, expressed concern that communities were not participating in communal projects, adding that the district might lose important assistance as donor organisations usually insist on the contribution of the beneficiary community.

Mr Dan-Yare noted that fuel smuggling across the border to Burkina Faso was alarmingly high and urged security services to help the District Security Committee to fight the situation.

He also complained that some influential people in the district were interfering in the work of the police as they usually go to plead with them to release suspects in criminal cases.

The people of Kassena Nankana East appealed for a separate district or a constituency, as their area was large and highly populated.