Kumasi, March 28, GNA - Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has appealed to the Government, traditional authorities and all people of goodwill, to intensify their effort at providing quality education geared towards meeting the challenges of the society.

He said education is the main enterprise by which "we can develop and better our fortunes as a people and nation". The Asantehene said this in an address read on his behalf at the 58th School Anniversary/ Stakeholders durbar of the Opoku Ware Senior High School in Kumasi on Saturday.

"Building Opoku Ware School (OWASS) into a citadel of hope" was the theme.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu said the Manhyia Palace was committed to supporting and promoting the establishment of schools and training facilities in communities.

He said his great predecessors actively offered all the necessary assistance to get young men and women educated home and abroad and he would seriously pursue this agenda of "assistance" to help in education delivery. Mr Stephen Anokye, Headmaster of the School, said in recent years, the school has become one of the pressure centres for boys seeking secondary education.

He said academic excellence and sterling performance in school sports are the twin glories that God has blessed the school with throughout the years.

The Headmaster said a fence wall to ward off petty criminals and permanent encroachers would be a project that would be of interest to the school.

The Most Reverend Thomas Kweku Mensah, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Kumasi, appealed to the students to be respectful and truthful at all times.

He said, the church would continue to maintain its strong influence in the character formation of the students. Mr Abraham Adu-Kwarteng, Branch Manager of Ecobank, Kumasi and an old student, re-affirmed the students' commitment to compliment the efforts of the school administration and the government in sustaining the glory of the school.