The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Gomoa East in the Central Region, Mr. Solomon Quarm, has stressed that most senior secondary schools in Ghana started actually started from small beginnings before becoming great.
He therefore stressed that any secondary school that is being started today, if well nurtured could also become very great in future.
Mr. Quarm stated these at the official opening of the Gomoa Nyanyanoman Senior High/ Technical school recently at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East of the Central Region.
The Theme for the programme was “Nurturing future leaders today through Education.”
Mr. Quarm was grateful to volunteers from Netherlands who put up a 3-classroom block to kick start the SHS/Technical school at Gomoa Nyanyano.
He volunteered himself as a former tutor to teach frees of charge at the new school as his little contribution to support the progress of the school.
The DCE noted that the Gomoa East District Assembly would also contribute its widow’s mite at all times to support the teething school to grow.
The DCE also made a carrion appeal to all landlords in Nyanyano and its environs to voluntarily provide their buildings as hostels to accommodate the students of the new school free of charge.
Mr. Quarm pledged on his own accord and the Gomoa East District Assembly to provide a GH¢10,000 seed capital to provide facilities to the school as early as possible.
On his part, the MP for Gomoa East, Dr. Desmond De-graft Paitoo said during the NDC administration, he tried hard to get an E- Block project for Gomoa Nyanyano but it could not be achieved because of land documentation problems.
He therefore advised the chiefs of Nyanyano to do well to document vast lands for the future expansion of the young SHS/ Technical school.
He also pledged to lobby for GH¢10,000 from GETFund to finance the Nyanyanoman SHS/Technical School to grow up to the level everyone would be proud of.
The District Director of education for Gomoa East, Mrs. Francisca De-Graft Johnson, in an address noted that when the idea of the secondary/technical school came up for Nyanyano all players in the education sector accepted it whole heartedly.
She noted that for any community to develop, education must be pushed hard, and if that is done, the educated people would stand a better chance to get jobs to make a better living for themselves and their communities.
Mrs. De-Graft Johnson added that for a school to perform well academically, there is the need for quality inputs or resources that should be provided including computers, laboratories, teaching and learning materials, staff welfare, among others.
She has accordingly invited all to come on board to provide the needed facilities to the school to succeed.
Mrs. De-Graft Johnson commended the planning committee for the establishment of the new school, and promised that the education Directorate would always be at the service of the school.
On his part, the Ankobeahene of Gomoa Nyanyano, Nana Ayi-Quaye noted that the idea of turning their community into a modern society, was hatched 10 years ago by their honourable royal processors, especially Nana Obeng Wiabo and Nana Duodu Wiabo all of blessed memory.
He commended their education Director, Mrs. De-Graft Johnson and the DCE for Gomoa East, Mr. Quarm for their various roles that resulted to this reality.
Nana Ayi-Quaye noted that a lot of students who passed the BECE could not go to secondary schools last year because they had to travel far away to schools they could not afford to go due to long distances.
He was pleased that they now have their own SHS/Tech school in their community for easy access.
Nana Ayi-Quaye was also happy that the DCE promised to offer free meals at least once a day for the students, to motivate them to learn harder.
The chief said the school would not accept any conduct of in discipline, laziness and stealing to ensure security for the students.
He also called on his people to donate free hostels, as a motivation for more students to enroll at the school.
On his part, the chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Global Ville Hotel, Opanin Akoto who chaired the function donated huge sums of monies and pledged many building materials towards the expansion of the new school.
He noted that his support for the school would not end where he started but would continue, to support it to stand.
One of the prominent Chiefs in Gomoa Nyanyano who has the new school dear to his heart, Nana Kuntu Blankson, also noted in an interview that the Chiefs would do all that they could to let the school progress to the level that everyone wants it to be.
In a speech read on behalf of the head of Gomoa Zongo Chiefs, Chief Abdulai Issaka Giwa I, at the ceremony; he pledged an unflinching support of the Gomoa Zongo communities towards the development of the new school.
Chief Giwa added his voice to the numerous commendations that previous speakers offered to their late chiefs who hatched the idea of putting up such a great school at Gomoa Nyanyano
He stressed that they would all support to ensure that it becomes successful.
Chief Giwa urged the students who would start the school to learn hard, and be obedient and also to ensure that they carve a very good image for the school.
