MP advises future leaders against indulging in antisocial acts

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Manhyia South constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr Matthew Opoku  Prempeh,  has advised  students against the use of computers to browse pornographic sites and indulge in other negative acts.

He has, therefore, urged  teachers to ensure the computers are well taken care of and used for  the intended purposes so that others could also benefit from their use.

Computers

Dr Prempeh gave the advice when he  donated desktop computers and laptops to some basic schools within the constituency.

In all, 29 desktop computers and 28 laptops were distributed to six basic schools within the constituency.  The Manhyia Divisional Command of the police was also presented with a desktop computer and a printer as the MP’s support to the police.

The presentation was in response to an appeal made by the schools for support for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) facilities in their schools.

The beneficiary schools were the Afia Kobi Ampem Basic School, St Ann JHS, Dichemso LA Basic School, Odumase Extension Basic School, K.O Methodist School and St Louis Demonstration JHS.

Getfund

While some of the items were bought from the MP’s share of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) , the rest were sponsorship from the Ghana Investment Fund For Electronic Communications (GIFEC).

At a ceremony to present the items to the beneficiary schools, Dr Prempeh advised the pupils to make good use of the computers and not use them to browse pornographic sites or indulge in negative acts.

He advised the teachers to ensure the computers were well taken care of so that others could also benefit from their use.

He pledged to give each of the 10 basic schools 10 tablets loaded with all the syllabi to be given to the best students as a form of motivation for the students to learn harder.

Burden

He said the tablets would take the burden of the purchase of text books off parents of the beneficiary students and would spur others on to learn harder.

The Metro Director of Education, Mrs Gertrude Mensah, said she was grateful to the MP for his assistance and support to education in the metropolis.

She also appealed to the ICT teachers in the various schools to take good care of the computers and use them for the intended purposes.

Mrs Mensah appealed for support to turn the sub-metro educational offices into central ICT laboratories for the schools within the vicinity so that schools that do not have ICT laboratories could use them.

This, she said, would solve some of the ICT laboratory problems facing some of the schools within the metropolis.