From Inusa Musah, Tema
Kofi Brako, Tema Central Member of Parliament (MP), has re-commissioned the gravelled Tema Community Four Prisco Park, after engaging the services of Green Grass Technology to give the field fresh life.
The MP, popularly known as KB, spent about GH¢200,000 in, not only greening the hitherto bare park, but also fencing it, connecting underground pipes to the field for watering, and mounting reserve water tanks for all-year watering of the field.
The Tema Prisco Park stands a few metres from Our Lady of Mercy Senior High School, and that means the renovated state of the park will benefit the school in its sporting activities. As part of the Independence Day celebration, the MP hosted a gala tourney for the communities in the constituency to play for laurels, and to also officially commission the field.
Brako said it has always been his dream to see the park given a fresh breath of life, where the footballers in Tema could gather to keep fit for national development. The rehabilitation of the park, he believed, would again benefit the Colts teams that want to use the field, “because football is better enjoyed on grass. Our young players have to get used to playing on grass because that is the best.”
Tema used to produce quality footballers who later saw themselves donning the national jersey, but following fast encroachment on its football fields, Tema has lost its football potentials, however, the Tema Central MP believed that that lost football glory the Harbour City used to have would be rekindled after the opening of the park.
Assuring the constituency that he would ensure that injurious football parks in the area are grassed and fenced, KB called on the electorate to vote Nana Addo for president and retain him -KB- as MP for Tema Central for accelerated national development and economic relief. The MP, has, again handed keys to a new toilet facility to the Community ‘8’ Number ‘3’ Junior High School (JHS).
The lives of both teachers and students had been at the mercy of a death-trap toilet facility constructed many decades ago. Seeing the messy and life-threatening state of the toilet, KB, in November last year, began the construction of a modern toilet facility for the school.
The first phase of the facility – four water-closet (WC) seaters for the female students, three WCs for the male students, and three urinal pots for the male students – cost the MP GH¢600,000. The source of funding, the MP indicated, was from his share of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) and personal savings.
Before the ribbon would be cut to officially open the lavatory, the Headteacher of the school, Mr. Daniel Tetteh, commended the MP for being their ‘saviour’. However, he mentioned a primary school, encroachment on school properties, sand winning, walling of school land, library and haphazard defecation on the school compound as some of the challenges the school is faced with.
Mr. Tetteh believed that if the school is walled, outsiders could not be able to access the school to destroy their properties or access the new toilet facility. On her part, the Tema Director of Education, Mrs. Veronica Pamela Adzatontem, requested that Mr. Brako engage the services of a night watchman who will prevent the community members from accessing the facility.
That way, she believed that the facility would last longer for the beneficiaries. She charged the school authorities to ensure that they kept the facility clean at all times, and also maintain it very well. The MP, on his part, assured the school of the second phase of the construction, which shall see the school having a reserved water tank to help improve on hygiene whenever the students visit the loo and the taps are not running.
He appealed to the Tema MCE to invest in walling all the public schools in the metropolis to provide security for the teachers, students and pupils. Another investment Mr. Kofi Brako has made in the Community ‘8’ Number ‘3’ JHS is connecting the school to a broadband internet. The cost of maintaining and keeping the internet running will be fully borne by him, he assured the school.
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