COMPANY BUILDS QUARTERS FOR NKWANTA TEACHERS (PAGE 20)

THE District Chief Executive (DCE) for Tain District, Mr Jones Samuel Tawiah, has inaugurated a GH¢25,000 one-unit teachers’ quarters at Nkwanta, a predominantly farming community near Seikwa in the Tain District in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The project which was single-handedly undertaken by Jen & Nyarko Company Limited, an Accra-based Sewerage/Liquid Waste Management and Energy firm, is to encourage teachers posted to the town to stay and teach at the local primary school.
In 1995, the company constructed a six-unit primary classroom block at a cost of GH¢50,000 for the school and in February, this year, it presented computers, printers, mobile phones and accessories to three state institutions in Accra.
The beneficiary institutions were the Accra District Police Command, the Motor Transport and Traffic Unit and the district office of the Driver, Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA).
Presenting the keys of the teachers’ quarters, Mr Joseph Mekobi Nyarko, the Managing Director of the company, who is also a native of the district, gave the assurance that his outfit would donate a bicycle to any teacher who accepted posting to the town and work there for three years.
He noted with regret that owing to lack of accommodation for teachers in the town, teachers posted to the area reported and later left thereby leaving the pupils to their fate.
Mr Nyarko appealed to all citizens of Tain to contribute their quota in diverse ways towards the development of the district.
The DCE for Tain, Mr Tawiah who received the keys, expressed gratitude to the benefactor and expressed the hope that the gesture would motivate teachers posted to the town to stay on.
He later presented the keys to the chief of the town, Nana Emmanuel Tano, who also thanked Mr Nyarko for his contribution towards effective teaching and learning in the area.
In another development, the company with the support of a Canada-based company, EUTELSAT 907, has established a modern Internet café at Seikwa, also in the Tain District to link the town and its environs with the outside world.
The café with a number of computers and other gadgets, and is believed to be the first of its kind in the region, would benefit students of the Nkoraman Senior High School in the town, the Tain District Assembly and other state and private institutions in the area.
Inaugurating the centre, the DCE for Tain said the establishment of the café would enable students in the area to compete with the endowed schools in the country.
Mr Tawiah described the establishment of the centre by Mr Nyarko as a surprise to him in particular and the entire people in the area at large.
He thanked the company for the intervention, adding that it had been the intention of the government to establish a similar café at the Nkoraman SHS.
 The DCE cautioned the students not to use the café as an excuse to run away from school to engage in social vices, stressing, “Do not visit the café with any bad motives but use it to brighten your horizon because it is not where you are but what you are and can do”.
The chief of Oyoko, near Seikwa, Nana Twum Barima, who is also the Vice President of the Tain Traditional Council, expressed gratitude to the company for providing the facility.
 The Managing Director of the company urged students, banking institutions, among others, to patronise the café.
 Mr Nyarko expressed concern about the deplorable nature of roads in the district, especially from Seikwa to Berekum and Nsawkaw, the district capital to Seikwa and other stretches, and appealed to the government to repair them.