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The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) through the GNPC Foundation, has commissioned a new 160-bed dormitory, and a 24-Unit Toilet and Bath facility at Bekwai SDA Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region.
At a short ceremony to hand over the facility, the Chief Executive Officer of GNPC Ghana, Dr. Kofi Kodua Sarpong, premised GNPC’s interventions in the Education sector on the recognition that government is overstretched and thus, called for corporate entities to extend support to schools and institutions so as to make academic works bearable for both students and teachers.
“A trip across the country would show GNPC’s enormous investment in the education sector with the construction of some 162 6-unit classroom blocks to enhance teaching and learning,” he said.
“As a national corporation, we decided that Ghana’s oil money must benefit every Ghanaian. This is why the Foundation was operationalized to design and implement social intervention and investment programs that bring relief to Ghanaians regardless of where they are,” he added.[ads4]
Dr. Sarpong said GNPC prioritizes value for money and lauded the Project Consultant and Contractor for delivering on quality with a very competitive budget.
He hinted that GNPC, through the Foundation, will bring more focus to the health sector with plans to expand its support to health institutions and the provision of healthcare infrastructure such as Community Based Health Planning and Services facilities (CHPS compounds) in communities with dire need for such.
On his part, the MP for Bekwai Constituency and 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Joseph Osei Owusu, thanked the GNPC for its developmental role in Ghana and for extending its support to the people of Bekwai.
Mr. Kofi Anane Afoakwa, Headmaster of Bekwai SDA SHS, expressed the school’s profound gratitude to the GNPC Foundation for coming to its aid and assured that plans have been put in place to ensure its sustainable use over a long period of time. He said the school, by its projections, will be able to discontinue the double track shift system in favor of a single track if GNPC could assist it with a 12-Unit classroom block – a request the Foundation has assured to take into consideration.
Also present at the ceremony was the Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr. Dominic Eduah, Ag. Head of the Environment & Social Amenities Unit of the GNPC Foundation, Madam Lubaabat Habib-Jawulaa, MCE for Bekwai Municipal, Hon. Kwaku Kyei Baffour and other representatives for the Municipal Education Directorate.[ads1]
The GNPC team led by Dr. Sarpong was also led on an inspection tour of the ongoing construction works on a new Astroturf facility being funded by the Foundation for the Bekwai Municipality at Bekwai SDA SHS.
The project which has suffered undue delays due to some challenges have been re-awarded to a new Contractor, Blag Ghana, whose CEO, Eddie Dankwah, has assured of a record completion time.
Source: GNPC Foundation
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