Parliamentary Select Committee on Education Inspect Getfund Projects 

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, in Parliament, has inspected Get fund projects in some Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region.

The committee led by its Chairman Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, MP Fanteakwa North visited Oyoko Methodist SHS, OPASS, GHANASS, and Abomosu Senior High Schools.

The leader of the delegation, Hon Amankwa Asiamah was satisfied with the state and the progress of some of the projects particularly in schools such as Oyoko Methodist, Ofori Panin Senior high school, GHANASS, and Abomosu senior high schools.

The chairman projects the contractors in charge of these projects to expedite their efforts to hand over the work on the various projects on the scheduled time.

A member of the committee Hon Bernard Ahiavor, also a Member of Parliament for Akatsi South, however, raised the issue of unfairness in the distribution of Getfund projects by the government.

He continued “I cannot stand here and accept that when heads of schools were asked to bring the needs of their various schools it is only projected that we are seeing that are the heads who brought the needs of the project of their various school”.

He lamented that a typical example is Ofori Panin Senior High School which had about ten projects going on simultaneously whilst other schools are not having a single of such projects.

Hon Vincent Ekow Assifuah formal PRO for the Ministry of Education currently a lawmaker and a member of the committee debunked claims by the minority that Getfund resources were unfairly distributed.

He emphasized, there were a need for assessment in all the senior high schools and was presented to the ministry of education.

Hence schools were given their projects based on the assessment that was done and “so the failure of some school heads to present their needs to the ministry of education cannot be the fault of the government and the distribution of GetFund Projects.

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent