Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Member of Parliament (MP), for Ellembelle, has distributed 1,000 pieces of furniture to the Kikam Technical Institute (KIMTECH) to enhance teaching and learning.
The donation followed an appeal by the Principal of the Institute, Mr Emmanuel Bright Nomah, to the office of the MP following the huge furniture gap facing learners in the classrooms.
Announcing the school, Mr Armah-Kofi Buah, who doubles as the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said “the crisis of furniture in schools will come to an end in three ( 3) years as the government is making frantic efforts to stock classrooms with an adequate set of furniture to provide access to education.
He said KIMTECH was more endowed with Engineering facilities and was identified as one of the best in terms of technical education in Ghana.
To this end, the Institute was chosen as a ” Certified Energy Commission Centre”.
Mr Armah-Kofi Buah touted his achievements in the school and promised to follow up on the current challenges confronting the school.
The MP charged the students to make use of the short opportunity in the school to realize their dreams of becoming engineers, electricians, welders and masons, among others.
He promised to liaise with the Minister of Education for a new bus for the school.
Mr Emmanuel Bright Nomah, the Principal of KIMTECK, said that with a population of 2,800, coupled with new courses introduced in the school, the Institute required expansion in infrastructure and other facilities.
He said the furniture marked a new chapter of learning and impacted the school’s drive for academic excellence.
Mr Nomah lauded the legacy and interventions of Mr Armah-Kofi Buah in the Institute, such as the water project, which saved the school from its long-running water crisis.
The MP also constructed the Electronic Block for the oil and gas capacity building project, as the then Minister of Energy donated a Toyota Pick-up van to the school, among others.
Mr Nomah appealed to the MP for students’ washrooms, staff accommodation, students’ beds, a fence wall, asphalting of access roads and more teaching and non-teaching staff to the school.
Mr Joseph Armah Agyekum, District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ellembelle, said the GETFUND dormitory block project, a six-unit classroom block and a new dining hall were ongoing at the Institute.
He said the government believed that technical and vocational training was the surest way to propel Ghana to its destination.
Nana Etiase II, Chief of Kikam recognized the MP’s role in KIMTECK as unmatched.
He said the Institute was established in 1963 with a land size of one (1) mile square for future expansion.
Nana Etiase II appealed to the government to convert the Institute into a Technical University.
