Minority Leader and MP for Efutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has commissioned the Richard C. Ekem Library in Efutu, a state-of-the-art facility featuring a 100-seater ICT centre, private reading rooms, and a 150-seater conference hall to empower youth learning.

The library honours the late industrialist Richard C. Ekem, who in 1995 quietly funded Mr Afenyo-Markin’s school fees at St. Augustine’s College during his family’s hardships, igniting his path to leadership.

Speaking at the event, Mr Afenyo-Markin urged parents to prioritise their children’s education over entertainment, drawing from his mother’s strict discipline of enforcing reading time.

“That is what I want to say to you parents here. Now this library is more than a repository of books. It is a launchpad. The true wealth of a people is not buried in the soil. It is cultivated in the mind.”

He also cautioned students against using the ICT facilities for fraud.

“We must guard against dark temptation to misuse this powerful technology,” he warned.

“See technology as a tool for creation, not crime. Let them be inspired by the Chinery Hesses, not by scammers who destroy lives.”