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Regional News of Thursday, 28 August 2014

Source: GNA

Parents to educate their children against wake keeping

The Paramount Queen Mother of the Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area, Nana Akua Asantewaa III, has called on parents to ensure their children in basic schools concentrate on their studies and avoid attending wake keeping and spending their time watching television and video.

She said this when the Newmont Akyem Gold Mines Project handed over ablock of three classrooms with an office, store, library, staff common room and a 10- seat water closet place of convenience tothe Birim North District Assembly and the Hweakwae community as part of their corporate social responsibility.

Nana Akua Asantewaa said the low level of education had hinderedthe development of the country and attributed the nations under development and high unemployment to pooreducation of the youth.

She appealed to chiefs in the mining communities to use their royaltiesto build a secondary technical school in the district since the one second cycle school in the district was not enough.

She also appealed to the chiefs to educate the youth to avoid demonstrations against mining companies toenable them increase production to finance more development projects to enhance the living standard of the people.

The General Manager of the Newmont Akyem Project, Mr. Kevin Moxham,commended the local contractor Netcom Contruction Limited and the community fortheir corporation towards the completion of the project on schedule.

The District Chief Executive, Mr Paul Aboagye Dadzie, thanked Newmontfor their support in education, health, water and sanitation which had improved the living standards of the people.

He said efforts were being made to establish a nursing training institute in the district to train nurses to manage clinics and health facilities in the district.

The Chief of Hweakwae, Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, thanked Newmont and the contractors for providing the school.