The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Constituency in the Western North Region, Lawyer Alfred Obeng Boateng, has offered GH¢190,400 financial assistance to 70 tertiary students in their quest to pursue higher education.
The MP, through his ‘Lawyer Alfred Obeng Boateng Fees Programme’ (LAOBFP), presented the money to the beneficiary students to cushion them in footing their academic user-fees and other educational expenditure.
Lawyer Alfred Obeng, on his election as MP for the area in 2020, instituted the LAOBFP programme to support the education of particularly young people in the Constituency tertiary let me at the Senior High School (SHS) level.
However, with the introduction of the Free SHS programme in 2017, He shifted his focus to assist students at the tertiary level towards the training of the needed human capital to drive the progress of the Municipality.
Reduce burden
Speaking to Hamza Mohammed after a short presentation, the Special Assistant to the Law Maker, Mr Solomon Kwame Boamah noted that the gesture was to ease the burden on the parents of the beneficiary students.
“Our Member of Parliament vision for the constituency in the area of education is to provide the needed support to students to be able to acquire tertiary education so as to prepare them to take up future job opportunities,” he said.
Acquire skills
Mr Solomon Kwame Boamah challenged the beneficiary students to strive to acquire other employable skills in addition to what they were currently pursuing in their respective educational institutions to enable them to set up their own businesses.
He stated that there were too many graduates chasing non-existent white-collar jobs, adding that it would be in their own interest to acquire critical skills as well so that they could be gainfully employed.
He advised them against belittling vocational skills training despite their academic pursuit because acquiring such skills placed them above others since they could easily set up personal businesses in the absence of formal job opportunities.
“The government is over-stretched in providing job opportunities to the youth and it is important that the youth acquire employable skills to establish their own firms,” He Solomon Kwame Boamah indicated.
In an interview with the beneficiary students, they thanked the MP for the assistance in the wake of the pandemic as it was a huge relief to their parents in footing their academic user fees.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Hamza Mohammed
