Companies urged to support development

Shama (W/R), Sept 4, GNA- An appeal has gone to companies and organizations operating in the Shama Ahanta Metropolitan area to invest part of their profits in education and other social services to accelerate developments in the area.

Mr Philip Kwesi Nkrumah, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, said while the government is determined to provide basic infrastructure to quicken the pace of development it would need the support of well-meaning people and private companies and institutions to realize this objective.

He was commissioning the rehabilitated eight-classroom block for the Shama Senior Secondary School on Thursday.

The two-storey facility, valued at 304 million cedis has offices, was rehabilitated by the Takoradi International Company, which operates a power plant at the Takoradi Thermal Power station.

Mr. Nkrumah announced that 1.6 billion cedis had been earmarked for the rehabilitation and upgrading of facilities at the Shama Secondary School under the special programme to upgrade a second cycle school in each of the 110 districts.

The government has also awarded contracts worth more than 24 billion cedis to provide additional facilities and upgrade existing ones in the school.

These include the construction of new classroom blocks, dormitories for boys and girls, teachers' bungalows, science and computer laboratories. Mr Marshall Pendergrass, General Manager of TICO, said the project was part of the company's objective and vision to remain socially responsible to communities in its catchments area.

He said recently the company completed and handed over to Aboadze and Abuesi communities a classroom block.