Bassare Educational Fund launched in Koforidua

Koforidua, Nov. 12, GNA - Mr Alex Asamoah, New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, has said quality education was what Ghana needed to ensure that products from educational institutions are marketable.    He said it was for that reason that the government was committed to improve infrastructure in all basic schools such as removing schools under trees so as to lay a solid foundation at the basic level.   Mr Asamoah, who said this in a speech read on his behalf at the launch of the Bassare Educational Fund in Koforidua at the weekend, said education was the bedrock of any society and should therefore not be taken for granted.   The occasion coincided with the one year anniversary celebration of Uborte Ahmed Sulemana Bawa 11, the Bassare Chief.   He said the government would continue to establish more colleges of education to produce enough teachers and also expand education infrastructure in senior high schools.   Alhaji Abdul Karim, a businessman, said the launch of the fund aimed at sponsoring brilliant but needy Muslims students was timely since education is the single most powerful weapon people could use to change for a “better communities, Nation as well as the world”.   He said the vision of the fund was to have more teachers, nurses, police officers, Judges and Lawyers in the Zongo communities.   Alhaji Karim appealed to those who would be defeated in the December polls to accept defeat in good faith and not to do anything that could plunge Ghana into chaos.    Uborte Bawa on his part, said in consultation with the Council of Bassare Chiefs in the Eastern Region, decided to launch the fund to support brilliant but needy students, the vulnerable and disable child who deserve some special training.   He said it was his conviction that Zongo chiefs had a role to play to complement whatever social interventions successive governments were putting in place to make living bearable for the citizenry.    Uborte Ahmed Sulemana Bawa said the launch of the fund did not support or negate the current debate about making second cycle education free adding “Be free or otherwise the fund is very relevant”. He said the reason why politicians normally used “macho men” from the Zongo to do their dirty job for them was the high illiterate rate in the Zongo communities and said it was about time to change that negative trend.   GNA ... Read Full Story