Ghanaians Appreciate HIPC - DCE

Anloga, (V/R), Aug. 10, GNA - Mr. Emmanuel Vorkeh, Keta District Chief Executive (DCE) has said that despite the negative propaganda about Ghana "going HIPC" people were beginning to appreciate its benefits. The DCE said this when he commissioned a three-unit classroom block with a store and office and a five-seater water closet toilet for the Anloga Zion College Basic Schools at Anloga last Thursday.

The projects, which cost a total of 190 million cedis were funded with the district's allocation of the HIPC funds.

Mr Vorkeh said the frightening spectre created in the minds of people by the propaganda about the debt relief initiative had changed as government's intensions show in concrete terms by the numerous projects being financed under the fund throughout the country.

He said in the Keta District for example, a number of communities had benefited from projects in the health, sanitation, education sectors under the HIPC funds.

Mr Vorkeh said the Zion Basic Schools Project was the fourth school project completed in the district with the HIPC funds, promising that all communities would get their share.

Mr Emmanuel Y. Klogo, Headmaster of school expressed the school's appreciation to the Assembly for the project, which replaced a dilapidated one that was a death trap.

He said teaching and learning would improve with the construction of the new infrastructure.