Kpansiya gets 7.7m cedis school block

Kpansiya (Northern Region), 22nd June 99 ?

A 7.7 million cedi three-classroom block for Kpansiya Islamic primary school in the Yendi district has been commissioned.

Alhaji Malik al-Hassan Yakubu, Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi and the district chief executive, Mr Mohammed Al-Hassan jointly performed the ceremony.

The MP contributed six million cedis from his share of the MP's constituency projects fund, while the community provided 1.7 million cedis and communal labour.

Alhaji Yakubu noted that the Kpansiya school, was among those destroyed during the 1994 ethnic conflict and that the communal spirit and anxiety of the people to rebuild it moved him.

Alhaji Yakubu donated two gas camping lamps to the people of Kpansiya and Bini for their adult literacy classes and announced that so far 40 villages that are without electricity have been supplied with the lamps at a total cost of six million cedis.

He has also purchased a tractor at a cost of 27 million cedis from the fund for the Eastern Dagbon farmers co-operative to plough their farms.

The rationale is to enable the farmers to increase food production and earn more income.