Mr. Joseph A. Abuguri, Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Coordinating Director, has appealed
to chiefs in the area, to support the District Assembly to organize a stakeholders’ forum that
would offer the opportunity to look into the causes, find appropriate and implementable solutions
to the poor performance in the BECE by JHS students.
Mr. Abuguri made the appeal when he deputized for the
District Chief Executive and the Member of Parliament for the area,
on the occasion of the first anniversary of the installation of
Nana Berima Fi the third, Kyidomhene of the Breman Traditional
Area, at Breman Asikuma
Highlighting some of the developmental challenges
confronting the district, the Coordinating Director said,
education was the bedrock of development of any society, and if
seriousness was not attached to it, the desired development would
not be achieved.
?Sadly, in this district our performance as far as
quality education is concerned is nothing to write about and said,
the continuous poor performance in the BECE and Senior High school
Certificate Examination is a source of worry and to address this
issue requires a concerted effort by all and sundry to remedy the
situation,’ he stated.
Mr. Abuguri, speaking on health, particularly
maternal and Infant mortality as well as teenage pregnancy, said
teenage pregnancies was on the ascendancy in the district.
He said something must be done about this, our health
workers were doing a lot in the health facilities in the midst of
serious challenges, he added.
He therefore appealed to people in the area to
provide maximum support to the health personnel to supplement what
the Assembly and for that matter the government was providing, such
as CHPs Compounds, clinics and accommodation, among others, for the
health sector workers, to enable them provide quality service.
He lamented further that another serious challenge in the
district was waste disposal and its management, and indeed general
environmental sanitation, and believed that was why government in
its own wisdom had set aside the first Saturday of every month as
National Sanitation Day, to clean our towns and villages.
?Let us all embrace the exercise with the needed
attention in other that, collectively we make the area clean and
conducive to live in devoid of diseases?.
He urged Nananom to help the Assembly, find a
suitable place that could be developed as the final disposal site
fof waste, since the current site was not appropriate, adding
that the sooner Nananom helped us find a suitable place, the
better.
He congratulated Nana Berima Fi and the entire chiefs
and people of the Traditional Area, for a successful anniversary
celebration.
Source : GNA/newsghana.com.gh
