Minister for Public Private Partnership has donated three motorbikes, stationery and fuel worth GH¢23,000 to Wa municipal directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES).

Dr Abdul Rashid Hassan Pelpuo donated the items to help the directorate supervise and monitor the activities of teachers in the various schools in the municipality.  

Education in the municipality for the past few years has taken a nose dive for various reasons. One of which is the inability of Circuit Supervisors to play their core role of supervising and monitoring the activities of teachers especially absenteeism.

In a brief remark before he handed over the items, Dr Hassan Pelpuo who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Wa Central Constituency stated that the items will help to improve teaching and learning at the basic schools level in the Wa municipality.

He praised the Wa Municipal Director of Education, Fusaata Hamidu for the steps she has taken to reverse the dip in education in the municipality.

 ‘‘I want to be a partner in solving the challenges that we are facing. This is not going to be the last and we will continue to support them until we have been able to plug all the loopholes,’’ he pledged.

Upper West Regional Director of Education, Patricia Ayiko thanked the Wa Central Member of Parliament for the kind gesture and promised to use the motorbikes for the purpose for which they were given.

Wa municipal Director of Education, Hajia Hamidu said the donation was timely because, for the past four years, the office was constrained in terms of logistics and fuel to run vehicles at the office which made supervision difficult.

The Wa municipal was considered as endowed and was left out of the Global partnership for educational grant (GPE) programme forcing the municipality to look elsewhere for funding of its activities.

She also pledged to ensure that the items will be used judiciously and also handled with care.