Commissioner of Police (COP) George Alex Mensah has donated items to the Nerebehi M/A Basic School in the Bekwai Municipality to aid academic activities.
The GH¢20,000 worth of items included mathematical sets for final years students who are due to sit for their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), a lawn mower, and an undisclosed amount of money, which is to help the pupils sit their mock examinations.
He also donated an undisclosed amount of money to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) of Bekwai to register about 2,000 kids in the Municipality, including his hometown, Wioso-Nerebehi.
According to COP Mensah, he celebrated his birthday, and as part of the celebration, he decided to share it with the kids and the students in his hometown. He has also promised to give the school a very ultramodern teachers’ bungalow in order to keep the teachers in the community instead of commuting from afar.
He noted that education was one of the major issues in the development of Ghana, and in the smaller communities the quality was not as high as those in the cities, adding that some parents struggled to pay small amount of money for the children in school, hence, he decided to come to their aid since education was the best legacy one could offer his or her children.
The Headmaster of the school, Stephen Ofori Debrah, who could not hide his joy, expressed appreciation to COP Alex Mensah, adding that he had not seen such a gesture ever since he came to the school.
Ofori Debrah appealed to parents to take the education of their wards seriously, since the government could not shoulder the responsibility alone.
