USE DACF TO PROVIDE SOCIAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE (PAGE 16, MARCH 11, 2010)

THE Western Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the region to use the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) to provide social needs of the people since they must benefit from it.
Mr Aidoo made the call when he presented 100 chairs and 50 stools worth GH¢2,400 on behalf of the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) to the Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School in Sekondi.
He said the assemblies should embark on minor projects such as the provision of school furniture and classroom blocks between this year and 2011, instead of constructing mansions which would only benefit the officials of the assemblies.
“The people need water, good classrooms. We want the people to benefit from the district assemblies common fund,” he emphasised.
Mr Aidoo said the RCC, the school management committee and the Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service would officially visit the Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School to talk to the students on the recent illness which befell the students.
The Western Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service, Mrs Rebecca Afiba Dadzie, urged the school’s authorities to take good care of all items they had in the school, whenever new consignment was sent to the school, it added up to the old stock.
The Headmistress of Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School, Ms Louisa Constance Aggrey, commended the RCC for the kind donation, and urged the regional minister to visit the school regularly to acquaint himself with what happened in the school.