{"id":126541,"date":"2015-06-20T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T06:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126541"},"modified":"2015-06-20T06:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T06:12:03","slug":"government-to-establish-jewellery-institute-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126541","title":{"rendered":"Government to establish Jewellery Institute &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has hinted that government would liaise with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to explore the possibility of establishing a jewellery institute in the Ashanti Region.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am highly delighted that even before the conclusion of consultations, Nana Tepehene has already availed 40 hectares of land for the project,\u201d President Mahama stated.<\/p>\n<p>The President said this when he visited Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District, as part of his three-day official visit to the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama said the establishment of a jewellery institute in the country would add value to the raw mineral exploited\u00a0in the country,\u00a0to raise income levels for government in the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p>The President said the establishment will create numerous jobs for Ghanaians who would be engaged in the production, sales and exportation of the finished goods.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, President Mahama broke grounds for commencement of cocoa road projects at Subin Camp in the Adansi South District, and Bekwai in Amansie both in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The President inspected development projects at Tepa,\u00a0including the 60-bed district hospital project that government initiated a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0later climaxed his three-day Ashanti Regional visit with the inauguration of a playground complex in the Kumasi Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>On the rehabilitation of roads in the district, President Mahama mentioned Tepa-Goaso, Tepa-Bomaa, Maafo-Subriso, Fanti, Anyenasusu and Nyameadom roads, as some of the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Adusei Atwenewa Ampim, Paramount Chief of the Tepa Traditional area, commended President Mahama for upgrading the Tepa Senior High School.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, appealed to government to construct more classroom blocks for the basic schools in the district, to accommodate the growing number of students in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Ampim commended President Mahama for siting a new Day Senior High School at Maafo in the District,\u00a0and appealed to government to construct a new boys&#8217; dormitory for the Tepa Senior High School to accommodate the growing numbers of students in the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will also be happy if President Mahama could work hard to complete the Jubilee market project for the people of Tepa that was initiated some years back,&#8221; the Paramount Chief added.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Anarfi-Mensah, Ashanti Regional Minister said, although government had carried out a number of development projects in the district, a lot more were underway.<br \/>\nSource: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has hinted that government would liaise with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to explore the possibility of establishing a jewellery institute in the Ashanti Region. &#8220;I am highly delighted that even before the conclusion of consultations, Nana Tepehene has already availed 40 hectares of land for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,21,4],"class_list":["post-126541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}