Koforidua, May 17, GNA - Prince Tagoe, a member of the national Under 23 football team, the Meteors and former student of the Koforidua Senior High Secondary Technical School (SECTECH) has presented sporting equipment worth 16,000 US dollars to his former School.

The items which were presented on Saturday included 20 footballs, 20 volleyballs, 20 basketballs, two sets of jerseys with two sets of football hoses to match and goalkeepers' gloves.

Tagoe who now plays professional football in Saudi Arabia also donated 1,000 US dollars to the school for the development of sports. The New Juaben Municipal Director of Education, Mrs Christiana Boateng who received the items on behalf of the school, said that it is sad that some people fail to recollect the sacrifice that their mothers made to bring them up as well as their schools.

Mrs Boateng said it is therefore gratifying that Tagoe has recollected what SECTECH has contributed to his life and has come to support the school, which is a sign of good things towards the development of the school.

She appealed to other old students of the school to come and help improve upon the facilities at the school.

Nana Akwesi Adjei-Boateng, New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, commended SECTECH for producing great sporting talents for the country including Myles Mills and appealed to the school authorities to take advantage of the sporting facilities at the school to produce more sporting talents for the country.

He appealed to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports to invest more in Second Cycle School sports to help produce sporting talents for the country.

Mr Foster Bortey, National President of the Old Students Association of SECTECH, said the old students announced that they handover an Assembly Hall befitting the current students population to the school to mark its 50th anniversary celebrations. He said the drawings on the building are ready and it had been handed over to the headmaster of the school.

Mr Bortey said every old student of SECTECH has a role to play in making the school a better place for the future generation and said the association has opened offices in all the ten regions of the country and called on old students of the school to make efforts to contribute their quota.

Earlier the headmaster of the school, Mr John Kwame Bempong said the school with a population of 1647 scored 100 per cent at last year's West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Mr Bempong said last year the school also produced the best two mathematics students of the region and the second best mathematics student in the country in a competition organized by the Mathematics Teachers Association of Ghana.

He said in sports, the school is the current Eastern Region Boys hockey champions, holds the current New Juaben Second Cycles athletics championship trophy for boys with Samuel Akayade of the school representing the country in table tennis at the Egypt games where he won a bronze medal to represent Africa at the next world table tennis championship in Sweden.

Another student of the school, Gloria Safo Adjei also represented Ghana at the Africa Table Tennis Championship at Egypt. 17 May 08