A community that spent years trying and failing to establish a secondary school of its own will finally get one, and it will be no ordinary institution.
President John Dramani Mahama cut the sod on Friday for the construction of a STEM Secondary School in Tenga, a facility funded by GETFund that the President said will look and function like a university campus when completed.
The school will be equipped with modern science and technology laboratories, boarding facilities, teachers’ bungalows and all the infrastructure needed to deliver quality education to young people in the area.
President Mahama, speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony during his two-day Resetting Ghana working tour of the Savannah region, acknowledged the long road the people of Tenga had travelled to get to this point.
He recalled that when the government introduced the Community Day Senior High School programme, Tenga was passed over in favour of Bamboi and New Longoro, which were considered better placed to serve neighbouring communities.
Even after that, residents came together and attempted to build their own school with support from the District Assembly, but the effort did not hold.
“Today is a happy day because what we are beginning is bigger and more transformational than what we imagined years ago,” he told the gathering.
The President assured residents that this was not a project that would begin and stall.
He said GETFund has made resources available and that while construction was originally expected to start in 2025, work is now beginning and will move quickly toward completion.
He expressed confidence that the school will be completed and commissioned before he leaves office.
Construction was originally expected to begin in 2025 but could not get off the ground at the time for various reasons.
Richard Aniagyei, ISD
