Education must provide solutions to national problems

Mrs Selina Avevor, an aspiring Assemblywoman for Kuntunse in the Ga West Municipality, has called on policy makers to make education pragmatic enough to equip the next generation with the skills and zeal to solve the nation's problems.

According to her, “We should give the next generations the power to be masters over their own destiny. This would be the atonement for our own failure to guide our development. So many people are outside the socio-economic comfort zone.”

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mrs Avevor said although, there had been some improvements in the life of the Ghanaian, the rate of economic empowerment had been rather slow.

She therefore called on district assemblies to aggressively improve educational infrastructure, motivate teachers and strengthen monitoring and evaluation to bring out the best in children.

Mrs Avevor, who also chairs the Kpobiman Women’s Association, said as a welfare-oriented person, she would spend her days as an assemblywoman mobilizing the human and material resources to confront the challenges of her community.

“For instance, it is not the job of an assemblywoman to build roads but we can all come together and get an earth moving equipment to make some of our roads motorable. It is all about the zeal and vision of the leader who knows how to get the best out of the people to make a community become development-oriented.”