New Tagnamo school in Mion District gets facelift …following Ghanaian Times exposé

The New Tagnamo D/A Primary School at Kayang, a farming community in the Mion District of the Northern Region has been renovated following a Ghanaian Times report on the poor state of the building.

The roof of the four-unit classroom block and the adjoining office have been fixed.

It would be recalled that Ghanaian Times on Friday, June 7, 2023, reported that over 400 New Tagnamo School pupils were out of classrooms due to a building collapse five years ago.

The Ghanaian Times observed upon a visit to the school on Friday morning, that the dilapidated school building had been renovated, with teaching and learning ongoing.

Information available to the reporter indicates that immediately after the publication, the Mion District Assembly quickly mobilised funds for the renovation of the school building.

The Regent of Kayang community, Chief Ziblim Saaka, commended Ghanaian Times for publishing their story, leading to the renovation.

“The entire community is saying thank you to the reporter and the newspaper,” he stated.

He said their children could now sit comfortably in a beautiful painted classroom to learn.

The Chief added that now no child could leave the community to attend school outside as they would all now study in the beautiful environment.

He, however, appealed to the assembly to come to the aid of the school to provide them furniture.

The Chairman of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the school, Makante Inimbiwum, expressed his happiness and thanked the Ghanaian Times.

He stated that their children could now get a better education and could no longer travel distance again to school.

The Assemblyman for New Tagnamo Electoral Area, Mr Magan Nkatibi Elijah, also thanked the paper in an interview, saying that without the publication, the school would have still been in that bad dilapidated state.

“I will say our messiah for the pupils of New Tagnamo D/A primary school is Ghanaian Times,” he said.

He stated that they would continue to pray for the prosperity of the New Times Corporation, the publishers of the Ghanaian Times.

“I appeal to you to always visit our communities to uncover more of such problems for them to address by the state,” he said.

FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, KAYANG