The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T. Hammond has described the Second Lady’s response to the headteacher of the Kukurantumi Presby School’s request for educational materials \u201cas an insult of the highest order.\u201d<\/p>\n
K.T. Hammond in an interview on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, said Matilda Amissah-Arthur should apologise for her comment adding that \u201cif she is not coming to do it herself, the handlers should come and do\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Second Lady during an event to donate computers to the school, chastised the headteacher for asking for chalk, when government had donated computers to the school.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”76VG9uD0PXTUdqOiTDuLckYYEDh460rY”]\u201cShe got it completely wrong. Chalk, ordinary chalk! Who asked them to give school children slippers, shoes and school uniforms? What first they should provide the teachers are the primary tools among which will be chalk. If they don\u2019t have chalk and they have school uniform, what use is that?\u201d K.T. Hammond fumed.<\/p>\n The Adansi Asokwa legislator also noted that, in his constituency, \u201cthe District Director of Education comes to me pleading for money for things like exercise books and chalks.\u201d<\/p>\n This he said is because the \u201cgovernment simply has abandoned the education sector of this country\u201d adding that \u201cno wonder the headmistress was asking for chalk. It is a sad day for education in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n I won’t give you\u00a0chalk!<\/strong><\/p>\n While presenting five computers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>to the Kukurantumi Presby Primary School in the Eastern Region, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur blatantly rejected an\u00a0appeal for educational materials from the headmistress of the school and accused her of being ungrateful despite major efforts by government to make them comfortable.<\/p>\n \u201cHow much is a box of chalk? I won\u2019t give you chalk today, I won\u2019t give you chalk tomorrow,\u201d the Second Lady said.<\/p>\n She also complained about the over-reliance of parents on government\u2019s free school uniforms, saying that government had \u201cspoilt\u201d parents by providing school uniforms which had now made some of them reluctant to provide for their children.<\/p>\n The Second Lady’s comment has provoked anger<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>among Ghanaians who are calling on her to apologise.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n