‘Equip technical universities to provide low-cost furniture to rural basic school’
The government has been urged to consider providing resources to the Technical universities to provide furniture at a lower cost to basic schools in rural communities to help address the perennial insufficient furniture in those schools in the country.
This, according to the Vice president of National Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), Sirina Mahamadu, would significantly reduce the huge cost of procurement of furniture for basic schools.
She was speaking on the backdrop of the current economic challenges facing the country, adding that the innovation would also empower Technical Universities to be more relevant in the country.
Ms Mahamadu made the call at citizen-expectation town hall meetings organised by the CDD-Ghana at Abesim near Sunyani in the Bono Region yesterday.
The main objective of the town hall forum is to solicit the expectations of citizens, regarding the new government and discuss key priority issues that would assist in guiding the new administration’s agenda in the immediate post-election period.
Additionally, the forum also sought to offer platform for citizens and stakeholders to express their expectations of the new government and identify key national and regional priority issues that require urgent attention by the incoming administration.
The Director of programmes and Operations at CDD-GHANA, Frederick Adu Gyamfi, in a presentation called on Ghanaians to show keen interest and monitoring activities of the new administration in order to ensure value for money and accountability and check corruption.
According him, citizens must not wait during elections periods before voicing their concerns and grievances but must be active participants of day to day activities of the government right from the takeoff so as to put it on its toes.
Some of the participants called for the Council of State to be made more relevant and accountable to the people than its current stature by making their contribution binding on the president.
They contended that the Council of State should be made of institutional representation and made more effective than its current form.
Others also proposed that the presidential term limit should be maintained with the current four-year mandate.
They explained that more years for president would not augur well the country’s development saying some leaders could engage in corrupt activities if they should stay longer in power.
FROM DANIEL DZIRASAH, SUNYANI
