The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. John Dramani Mahama has pledged to add dormitory blocks for girls and boys in the Community Day Senior High Schools he started building when he was the President so that those who do not come from the community where the school is sited will benefit.
He said when voted back into government, “All the Community Day Schools we were building, 200 of them, we are going to finish them so that all the children can get schools to attend.
Mr. Mahama stressed at Tuobong, a community in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region as part of his three-day campaign tour of the Region to galvanize votes in the December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
The NDC administration started the Community base Senior High school to benefit students from the remote areas to get access to Secondary Education.
Former President Mahama in the NDC Manifesto for Election 2012 promised to build 200 of the day schools between 2013 and 2016 with the intention to build at least 50 each year within the four year period.
Mr. John Mahama on Monday, March 3 2014 cut the sod for work to start on the first batch of 50 new Community Day Senior High Schools at Nyanoa, near Adeiso in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region.
But with a few months to Election 2016, the NDC admitted it was not going to be able to achieve that feat. Mr. Mahama however inaugurated a few of them for use with the announcement that 75 were ready for use.
Only forty-six out of the 200 planned Community Day Senior High Schools project initiated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has been completed, the Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
