Atta Ne Atta Primary School to be re-opened this academic year

Atta-Ne-Atta(E/R), Sept. 11, GNA - The Kwahu South District Assembly Primary School at Atta-Ne-Atta which was closed down in September, last year, when Fulani herdsmen invaded the village and set fire to some houses would be re-opened this academic year, to enable the over 400 school children attend classes.

Two trained teachers have been posted to the school when basic schools re-open for the academic year on September 19. Nana Onwona Asante, Kwahu South District Chief Executive, announced this when he presented six packets of roofing sheets worth nine million cedis to four landlords whose buildings were set ablaze during the invasion.

He said the assembly had already presented 30 bags of cement worth 200,000 cedis to the community for the rehabilitation of an office and store for the school while five million cedis loan from the Poverty Alleviation Fund would be granted to Madam Beatrice Otema, a trader whose store was looted and set ablaze by the herdsmen. The DCE advised beneficiaries of the roofing sheets to use them to rehabilitate their buildings and urged people in the nearby communities to send their children to school.

He said farmers in the area would receive financial assistance from the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) to cultivate mangoes, vegetables and construction of fish ponds and urged them to form co-operatives to receive the assistance.

Nana Michael Asiamah, Chief of Atta-ne-Atta receiving the roofing sheets on behalf of the beneficiaries, thanked the assembly for the assistance, but said there were herds of cattle in the area destroying farm produce and appealed for assistance to drive them away. The assembly also presented eight packets of roofing sheets worth 12 million cedis to the people of Abene to roof their teachers' quarters.