The chief of Patasi-Kumasi and theAsantehene’s Abenasehene, Nana AduAnsiri Sarpong, says he will support any government that will help to develop his traditional area.
Speaking at the commissioning of an eighteen unit classroom block under the Emergency Senior High School Projects (ESHSP) at Kumasi Senior High Technical School (KSTS) recently, he said chiefs are always invited to programmes organised by politicians, but at the same time, they are barred from doing politics.
This, to him, looks funny and that he would always support a government that is interested in developing his area.
According to him, the eighteen unit magnificent block built by government will go a long way in helping to address the challenges the school is facing and that he would support the government to help bring the needed development to the school.
“I want to be emphatic: per what I observe in town,whatever help minister may need, I will be ready to help if I am informed about it.As I mentioned earlier, we need a lot of help for our school”, he said.
According to Abenasehene, sometime ago, the Member of Parliament for Nhyieaso, Mr. Kennedy Kankam, said he was undertaking a development projects at Patasi and he promised to support him and any government that would bring development to his people.
“Today, I want to clear the air. I do not support the idea of voting out development-oriented government from power since I do not know what the opposition government have for me.”
The Patasi chief thanked the Ashanti regional minister and Chief Executive of Kumasi Metropolitan (KMA), Mr.Simon Osei-Mensah and Mr. Osei-AssibeyAntwi respectively, for aiding the KSTS to get four projects.
According to him, the school has been in existence for a long time, but they were not given enough land at the time it was being established.
The OtumfuoAbenasehene stated that he will have discussion with the Ashanti regional minister and the head of KMA about how they can get a land to help in the development of KSTS.
The regional minister, Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, who delivered the inaugural address, revealed that the government of President Akufo-Addo has done a lot for the people of Ashanti region and Ghana as a whole.
According to him, Senior High Schools in the region have benefittedfrom 175 different projects. “On this campus, you can boast of two 18-unit classroom block for which we are here to commission one of them.
“Two 4-storey dormitory blocks, with one for the females and the other for the males. The school has already benefitted from some of these educational infrastructure.”
He also noted that the major problem confronting the school is lack of land to pursue further projects and welcomed the quest of Nana Ansiri-Sarpong to address the issue.
He thanked the NickSmith construction company limited for completing the project on time. “Once Nana has promised us land, we can also appeal to President Nana AddoDankwa Akufo-Addo with the able minister of education, Mathew OpokuPrempeh to add more of the projects to the school.”
The headmaster of the school, Mr Haruna Oppong-Boateng, on his partdisclosed that the student population of the school has grown exponentially with their current enrolment standing at 5,092 students. He continued that KSTS is one of the most populated, if not the most populated school in Ghana.
According to him, in the 2018/2019 academic year, the school was given an admission list of 3,080 students by the Computer School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), butthe school was able to enrol 2,910 first year’s students, who were separated into green and gold classes.
Fast-forward to 2019/2020,KSTS became the most sought after school in the entire country adding that 37,457 students selected KSTS as their first choice.
This, headmaster Haruna boasted, makes KSTS a school of choice.
However, because of lack of space, Mr. Oppong-Mensah said the school could only enrol 1,231 students last academic year.
“It is against this backdrop that we, as a school, would like to show our upmost appreciation to the New Patriotic Party government under the able leadership of His Excellency Nana AddoDankwaAkufo-Addo for his swift response to our infrastructural challenge by allocating four gargantuan projects in the Emergency Senior High School Projects (ESHSP).
He named the projects as two 18 classroom unit blocks, two four-storey dormitory blocks. “It is one of these classroom blocks which is being commissioned today, after a record time of eighteen months period”, he said.
He also revealed that government has supplied 1,800 classroom tables and chairs, 300 double-decker beds, 600 leader students’ mattresses, 20 big white marker board, 36 teachers’ tables and chairs and two notice boards.
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