The Sawua Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) block has been inaugurated in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti region, with a call on Ghanaians to embrace education, since that is the best legacy Ghana can bequeath unto them.
The three-storey project, with ancillary facilities aims to give STEM education is a boost in the area.
Addressing the gathering prior to the inauguration of the project, the Ashanti regional minister, Samuel Osei-Mensah, pleaded with Ghanaians to pay attention to STEM educational module since that is the areas under which developed countries had thrived.
According to Osei-Mensah, the world is transforming and Ghanaians must not be left behind, hence the need to appreciate educational policies rolled out by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo and his vice president Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia.
These educational strides, Osei-Mensah said at the function, were introduced and rolled out by the Akufo Addo-Bawumia administration to develop Ghana’s education, hence the introduction of free Senior High School (Free SHS) and Free TVET, which was ridiculed by some people.
Using the Girls in Information Communication Technology (ICT) programme to highlight his point, Osei-Mensah noted that the said programme was training girls with ICT skills.
“Not long ago, the Communications minister, Ursula Owusu was in the Ashanti region to train girls in ICT and that is the direction the world is tilting towards. The ICT is an arena that if you do not play at, you will left behind.”
The Ashanti region minister cited Afia Kobi SHS as a prime example of emerging change underway in Ghana’s education.
“Afia Kobi has been able to manufacture aeroplane, ship and this is how advanced nations started.”
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bosomtwe, Mr Joseph Assuming, lauded the government of the day for educational infrastructure in the area.
According to him, in 2017, SHSs in Bosomtwe were only thirteen, but today the district can boast of thirteen SHSs, adding that Bosomtwe has benefited so much from the government of the day.
On his part, the chief of Sawuah, Nana Kwaku Amankwa Sarkodie II, expressed appreciation to the Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, minister for Education , Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum and the DCE for the area – Joseph Asumin.
Amankwa Sarkodie II pleaded with the tutors to teach the children with the love of God.
