The new headmaster of Pope John SHS (POJOSS) and Junior Seminary, Rev. Fr. Benjamine Opoku Hene said discipline , supervision and monitoring, collaboration with parents and networking with old students are four thematic areas he will advance to improve quality education in the school.
Speaking to the media over the weekend after the 2023 day mass and induction ceremony, the new headmaster Rev. Fr. Benjamine Opoku Hene, said government alone cannot absorb all the burden in education in the Free SHS policy hence the need for all Stakeholders to support.
The headmaster of Pope John Senior High School and Junior Seminary appealed to government to complete new Boys dormitory block and Assembly hall projects stalled due to financial challenges by the contractor.
The new boys dormitory was expected to ease congestion currently being experienced however contractors who were putting up the facilities have abandoned sites for years due to failure by government to pay them.
Rev. Fr. Benjamine Opoku Hene said, due to lack of assembly hall, the dining hall has become omnibus for almost all activities disrupting dining periods of students.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Regional Minister Seth Kwame Acheampong said, government is committed to quality and accessible education hence the introduction of free senior high school accompanied with infrastructural expansion.
He assured that deplorable internal roads in the school will be fixed why efforts made to complete the stalled projects listed.
The Bishop of Koforidua Diocese of the Catholic Church Most Rev. Afrifa Agyekum on his part charged the new headmaster to uphold and imbibe catholic values into the students to spur their academic development.
The Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Catholic church, Most Rev.Afrifa Agyekum was visibly angry when he cited recent news report that, over seventy acres of cocoa farms as well as water bodies at Adum Dominase in the Western Region are being destroyed by Chinese illegal miners who have invaded community.
He wondered why Ghana has stood so low allowing Chinese and foreign nationals to invade the country to destroy cocoa farms which is the backbone of the economy and pollute bodies threatening citizenry survival.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
