President John Dramani Mahama has again explained the rationale behind his decision to build 200 Community Day Senior High Schools across the country.
Outlining the facilities available in the E-block schools, President Mahama also justified the need for the community Day Senior High Schools.
Speaking at the inauguration of the seventh Community Day Senior High School at Abease in the Pru District of Brong-Ahafo on the second day of his “Accounting to the People Tour” the President said by the completion of the project over 184,500 students will have access to education.
“I’ve been asked by many people why we have built such huge edifices to house secondary schools. Each of these schools has a capacity to take 1,500 students. Currently as I speak with these e-blocks we are building 123 of them that should give you the scope of the size of the intervention that we are doing into secondary education. This probably will go on record as the single largest expansion of access of secondary education in the history of Ghana.”
President Mahama said “we have built them of such a size with an eye to the future.”
”So if you multiply 1,500 by the 123 that are coming up then it means by the time we have completed those we should be able to create access for 184,500 Ghanaian children to access secondary education. We should remember that by the year 2050, Ghana’s population is probably going to about 35 to 37 million people and so we must build the schools with an eye into the future. And that is why you see this magnificent huge e-block before you,” he added.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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