‘Control Child Bearing’

The Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Education, Dr Adjei Hinneh, has admonished parents to adopt proper birth control mechanisms in order to reduce the pressure on educational infrastructure that is recorded every year, due to the high enrollment in schools.

According to him, admission in 2010 for kindergarten at ‘my first day at school’ which was 89,000 increased to 93,000 in 2011 and went up again in 2012 to 98,000.
He related the increase to parents’ failure to practise family planning.
He also advised parents to do their best by providing their wards with little things like slate, crayon and other things that would encourage them to stay at school.
Dr Hinneh was speaking at this year’s ‘my first day at school’ ceremony and commissioning of six-unit classroom block at Nyamaah School in Sunyani which was heavily attended by parents and traditional leaders.
He urged the teachers to lead exemplary life which could be emulated by the pupils.
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Kwasi Oppong Ababio, in his welcome address applauded parents who have chosen to enrol their children in school and urged them to fully play their roles to make the children successful in their various schools.
He said the Sunyani Municipal Assembly recognises education as the key to development. He added that the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA) through the Assembly had implemented over 250 development projects since 2009 in the Sunyani Municipality with the educational sector taking a chunk of them.
The MCE promised that the Assembly would continue to work hard to improve academic standards in the municipality through the construction of more school infrastructure and provision of furniture and logistics.
Mr Ababio revealed that the six-unit classroom block which cost GH¢ 199, 719.50 is a promise he made to the queen mother of Sunyani on her 40^th anniversary.
The building which was named after the queen mother, he said, is an appreciation for the invaluable role she has played towards the development of the municipality.
He called on the queen mother to continue to support them especially on gender mainstreaming.
The headmistress of Nyamaah School, Mercy Baah Nuakoh, said the management intends to divide the school into “A” and “B” due to high enrolment and therefore appealed to the assembly to construct more classroom blocks for them.
She said new admissions into the school, especially at the kindergarten level was steadily progressing and appealed to parents to collaborate with teachers to ensure that they always attend Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meetings.
The queen mother of Sunyani Traditional Area, Nana Yaa Nyamaah II, thanked the Municipal Assembly for the honour done her. She pleaded with parents to stop buying funeral cloth and invest in their children’s education.
 From Vivianna Mensah, Sunyani