Lack of vehicles hampering school inspection

The Inspectorate Division of the Atwima-Mponua Ghana Education Service (GES) has appealed to the government and other stakeholders to assist the outfit with vehicles, lack of which is hampering effective education delivery in the area.

Mr. Philip Addae, Head of the Division, said the district, huge in land size with poor road network , which shared boundaries with six districts- Ahafo-Ano South, Atwima-Nwabiagya, Atwima-Kwanwoma, Amansie-West and Bibiani-Anwiaso-Bekwai-had a total of 198 basic schools but could boast of only one Nissan pick-up vehicle.

The situation, he said, was affecting regular supervision of schools that would ensure efficient teaching and learning in the hard-to-reach parts.

Mr. Addae made the appeal when the management team of the GNA/Strengthening Transparency Accountability and Responsiveness- GHANA Media Auditing and Tracking Project met with stakeholders of the project, at Nyinahin, to assess the impact of the project and to chart a path for its sustainability.

The STAR- Ghana project, an initiative launched to put a spotlight on how government’s resources were helping to transform the lives of rural communities, is aimed at ensuring transparency, promote accountability and transparency.

The stakeholders comprising assembly and unit committee members, department heads and other community opinion leaders took turns to share how the project introduced to the district about four months ago, had immensely benefitted their respective communities and unanimously called for the continuity of the project, which folds up in November.

The project is being piloted in five other districts in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions.

Dr. Bernard Otabil, General Manager of GNA, who led the team, said one of the core mandates on the nation’s only wire service was to promote national security and cohesion and this was done through upholding the principles of objectivity, speed, accuracy and credibility in media reportage.

He took the opportunity to introduce GNA’s New Media Partnership for Accelerated Development (NeMPARD) which, he said, was a developmental communication strategy, which sought partnership with local government and rural communities for accelerated development.

STAR-Ghana, according to its official website, is a multi-donor pooled funding programme (funded by DFID, DANIDA, USAID and EU) to increase the influence of civil society and Parliament in the governance of public goods and service delivery; with the ultimate goal of improving the accountability and responsiveness of Ghana’s government, traditional authorities and the private sector