ASEBU RELAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL FUND (PAGE 22, DEC 3, 2010)

THE Asebu Traditional Council has relaunched its education fund to promote education in the area.
The relaunch of the fund formed part of activities marking this year’s celebration of their annual Apayamkese festival, which has the theme: ”Celebrating the past to inspire the future. Education, the key to our development.”
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people at Asebu last weekend, the Omanhene of the Traditional Area, Okatakyi Amanfi VII said the theme for the celebration was informed by the role of education towards development.
Okatakyi Amanfi said the collapse of the two fruit processing companies, L. Rose Limited and Fruit and Flavours Limited in the area had affected the ability of farmers to send their children to school.
He, therefore, appealed to indigenes and well wishers to assist by donating generously to sustain the fund.
The Omanhene also appealed to the government to rehabilitate roads in Asebu town as well as those in the area to enhance economic activities.
A lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Professor Nsiah Gyasi described the fund as a bold step that would help to stem the tide of high drop-out rate and teenage pregnancy in the area.
He advised the people against high funeral costs, which depleted their already meagre incomes.
The flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the 2008 election, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom pledged to donate GH¢50 each to 10 students in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District who would excel in the Basic Education Certificate Examination within the next five years.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr Anthony Christian Dadzie donated GH¢1,000 towards the fund, and Mr Kobina Arthur Kennedy donated GH¢1,000.
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, who was represented by Mr Patrick Aniagyei, a Presidential Aid at the Central Regional Co-ordinating Council on behalf of the national Democratic Congress (NDC), presented GH¢500 to the fund whilst Mr Arthur Kennedy and Nana Ato Arthur, the immediate past Central Regional Minister on behalf of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, donated GH¢500 towards the fund.