Stanley Nii Adjiri Blankson, Mayor of Accra Metropolitan Assembly, on Wednesday inaugurated a six-classroom block for Nanka-Bruce Junior High School at Korle Gonno in Accra.
The new block, which cost GHC 127,000, was sponsored jointly by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) and the Community-Based Rural Development Project. It is a replacement of a dilapidated one pulled down in 2005 by the AMA.
Speaking at the inauguration, Nii Adjiri Blankson noted that the school, which was built in 1915 by the late Joseph Kitson Mills, an educationist was an important education facility for the inhabitants of the area and beyond hence the AMA's decision to get it back on its feet.
The Mayor praised the teaching staff for the high enrolment despite the deplorable nature of facilities at the school and appealed to the inhabitants to take advantage of the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme by enrolling their wards.
He appealed to all well-meaning Ghanaians to help the AMA in the provision of a workshop, science and computer laboratories and canteen.
Nii Okaija Dinsey, Metropolitan Director of Education, expressed his displeasure about pupils walking long distances to school and thanked the GETFund and AMA for their efforts in rebuilding the school block.
He appealed to all stakeholders in education to support government in its quest to bring education to the doorsteps of all children.
"When these valuable social services are adequately provided, I believe they will go a long way to end the shift system currently operating in most schools," he added.
The mayor and his entourage also inspected a site acquired for the establishment of an ultra modern Senior High School for the people in the metropolis.