By P.K.Yankey
Kikam (W/R), March 30, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Member of Parliament (MP), for Ellembelle has distributed 1,000 pieces of furniture to the Kikam Technical Institute (KIMTECH) to enhance teaching and learning.
The donation followed an appeal by the Principal of the Institute, Mr Emmanuel Bright Nomah to the office of the MP following the huge furniture gap facing learners in the classrooms.
Making the at the school, Mr Armah-Kofi Buah who doubles as the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said “the crisis of furniture in schools will come to an end in three ( 3) years as the government was making frantic efforts to stock classrooms with adequate set of furniture to provide access to education.
He said KIMTECH was more endowed with Engineering facilities and was identified as one of the best in terms of technical education in Ghana.
To this end, the Institute was chosen as a ” Certified Energy Commission Centre” .
Mr Armah-Kofi Buah touted his achievements in the school and promised to follow up on current challenges confronting the school.
The MP charged the students to make use of the short opportunity in the school to realize their dreams of becoming engineers,electricians,welders and masons among others.
He promised to liaise with the Minister of Education for a new bus for the school.
Mr Emmanuel Bright Nomah, the Principal of KIMTECK, said with a population of 2,800 coupled with new courses introduced in the school, the Institute required expansion in infrastructure and other facilities.
He said the furniture marked a new chapter of learning and impacting the school’s drive for academic excellence.
Mr Nomah lauded the legacy and interventions of Mr Armah-Kofi Buah in the Institute such as water project which saved the school from their long-running water crisis.
The MP also constructed the Electronic Block for the oil and gas capacity building project as the then Minister of Energy, donated a Toyota Pick-up van to the school among others.
Mr Nomah appealed to the MP for students’ washrooms, staff accommodation, students’ beds, a fence wall, asphalting of access roads and more teaching and non-teaching staff to the school.
Mr Joseph Armah Agyekum, District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ellembelle, said GETFUND dormitory block project, a-six-unit classroom block and a new dining hall were on-going at the Institute.
He said the government believed that technical and vocational training education was the surest way to propel Ghana to her destination.
Nana Etiase II, Chief of Kikam recognized the MP’s role in KIMTECK as unmatched.
He said the Institute was established in 1963 with a land size of one (1) mile square for future expansion.
Nana Etiase II appealed to the government to convert the Institute into a Technical University.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga /Audrey Dekalu