Ada School Kids Shock DCE

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ada-West District Assembly, Adzoteye Lawer Akrofi, must have had the rudest shock in his life when he took media personnel on a tour of some Basic Schools in the district.

The tour, dubbed: My First Day At School, which took the DCE, the District Director of Education, Madam Winnifred Aku Gbadago, and journalists to five community schools, disclosed that all was not well with the level of awareness among school children in the district.

One stunning observation was that, seventeen months after the change of government in January, 2017, over 99% of pupils in lower primary category in the district were oblivious of who the current President of the Republic of Ghana was.

For instance, at Anyama, when Hon. Adzoteye Lawer Akrofi, randomly asked six primary two pupils of the Presbyterian Primary School who the current President of Ghana was, none of them gave the right answer. While three of them said John Mahama, each of the other three mentioned former President Agyekum Kuffour, the Greater Accra Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Eric Agorhom and Eric Abayateye, the Assemblyman for Anyamam Electoral Area.

Unfortunately, only one pupil in four other basic schools (Lolonya, Kportitsekorpe, Wekumagbe and Akplabanya) mentioned President Nana Addo Darkwa Akufo Addo’s name.

Lamenting about the embarrassing development, a former NPP constituency executive member (name withheld) said it was an indication that the DCE, District Education Director, and the NCCE are not on top of their job.

According to him, if those officers were to be working as expected, the children would have easily known who the President of Ghana was.

He said it was shameful for pupils in the hometown of the NPP Greater Accra Regional Chairman not to know the name of the President.

The last time a similar incident occurred was during the late Atta Mills’ era, when pupils in Agona Nsabaa in the Agona West District of the Central Region mentioned the then opposition leader, Nana Akufo Addo’s name as the then president of Ghana, generating a lot of brouhaha as to who was more popular among Ghanaians.

In a related development, the Terhe D/A Basic School, which was closed down some two weeks, following a mayhem that saw the burning of the corpse of a traditional chief and the murder of a 40-year old man, has re-opened.

THE PUBLISHER’s checks at the school on Monday have noted that teaching and learning have resumed amidst heavy security presence.

At the last count, 116, out of 200 pupils reported to school, while 8 out of 10 teachers have also reported.

The headmaster of the school, Mr. Raymond Ayitevie said he believed by the close of the week, the school would have recorded a full house. He disclosed that the daily teacher-pupil contact hours have also been extended by an hour to make up for the loss.

By: Daniel Akpaloo Nyorngmor, Sege-Ada