Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, Greater-Accra Regional Minister, on Wednesday presented 460 laptops to nine Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Greater-Accra Region..

The presentation which formed part of the Better Ghana Agenda ICT Project by the Ministry of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, is to enhance the teaching and learning of ICT in the schools, and to also enable the students acquire basic ICT knowledge before they come out of school.

Eight out of the nine beneficiary schools included KASLIN SHS, KAS SHS, Deyoungster’s International School, Jubilee SHS, The Master School, Perfect SHS, First Afternoon SHS and Vitac SHS received 50 computers each while Anmchara SHS received 60 computers.

Nii Agbo said government was keen on providing the necessary logistics and infrastructure for students to enable them develop their potentials for the benefit of the country.

He said ‘in addition to providing infrastructure, government has also made certain interventions, including, the distribution of free school uniforms and exercise books, the introduction of Teacher Retention Premium, and an increase in the number of schools benefiting from the School Feeding Programme, to make quality education not only accessible, but affordable to all’.

Nii Agbo said the world has become a global village and it is important to ensure that every Ghanaian receives quality Information and Communication Technology education, to make the nation’s human resource competitive on the global market.

“In our quest to become a fully-fledged middle income nation, in the not-too-distant future, the need to develop our human capital cannot be under-estimated. It is an established fact that the key to human capital is knowledge.”

He called on the students to make good use of the computers and other resources at their disposal.

He also appealed to the teachers and school authorities to try as much as possible to complement the efforts of government and use the computers for their intended purpose, as well as ensure that they are properly maintained to serve the present and future generation of students.