ICT cannot be examinable-MP

The Member of Parliament for Mfantseman East, Mr George Kuntu-Blankson, has appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to extend the time of making Information Communication Technology (ICT) examinable in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) from proposed the 2011 to 2015.

    

This would enable children in schools in rural areas who did not have access to computers to acquire them and prepare well before the examination.

    

Mr Kuntu-Blankson said this when donating 45 computers to 42 Junior High Schools, two preparatory schools and a youth fellowship in his constituency at Ekumfi Eyisam near Mankessim.

    

He said the GES could kill the interest of children in the ICT if they rushed to make it examinable subject when they were not prepared for it.

    

Mr Kuntu-Blankson said the donation of the computers, which were acquired with his share of the Common Fund, was to promote teaching and learning of ICT.

    

“Now every JHS in my constituency owns a computer,” he said and urged teachers of the subject and heads of the schools to manage them well to benefit every child.

    

Mr.Kuntu-Blankson appealed to District Assemblies, Parent/Teacher 

Associations and past students to help the schools to acquire computers to facilitate teaching and learning of the subject.

    

The Rev Kojo Baiden, the minister in charge of the Ekumfi Eyisam Methodist Church who received the computer on behalf of his Church’s Youth Fellowship, thanked the MP for the donation on behalf of the beneficiaries.

GNA/AMA

Student killed through occultism

Information gathered over the weekend indicates that fear has gripped students of a well known Senior High School in the Central Region, after one of three students, who allegedly practiced occultism, died at a hospital.

The three, whose names are being withheld for security reasons, according to investigations, were introduced into the practice by their seniors.

Sources disclosed that the three were taken to a ‘juju’ man, one Sir John at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality.

Information has it that the students practiced their occultism in the bush and sometimes, late at night in the classroom.

They went for the powers to be able get rich, learn hard as well as to lure ladies.

The incident came to the public domain when one of them, whose father is a pastor abroad, got sick from breaking the occultism rules and was therefore taken home due to the deteriorating condition of his sickness.

According to sources, this compelled one of the past students of the school to call the boy’s mother to find out how the boy was faring.

The said past student later prompted the mother to ask the boy to tell the truth, since he (the boy) has been involved in occultism.

Sources said the form three Visual Arts student, 18, refused to tell the truth and was later rushed to a hospital in Cape Coast where he was admitted for about a week.

Reports indicate that the boy’s skin started peeling off while on admission and he died later, sending chills down the spines of the other two; aged 16 and 17, who come from strong Christian homes. They later approached their headmaster and confessed to him.

The body has been deposited at the hospital morgue where he died.

The two boys were asked to stay with their housemaster and their parents were called to report to the school on Sunday.

A meeting was held between the headmaster, housemasters and some reverend ministers in Cape Coast to find a lasting solution to the problem.

The source further said during the meeting, one of the students claimed the ‘juju’ man had already left Mankessim and did not know his whereabouts.

Daily Guide/AMA

(MANKESSIM) MFANTSEMAN : Firemen responding to treatment

Eight firemen are among a number of injured responding to treatment at the Saltpond Hospital after their fire tender crashed into a vehicle rescuing victims of a fatal accident.

The incident occurred near Mankessim on the Accra-Takoradi road. The fire fighters were rushing to rescue survivors of an accident which claimed at least nine lives and left many injured. According to the Fire Service, the fire tender skidded off the road, Kwesi Ankonam Quayson Assistant Chief Fire Commander at the Central Regional Fire Service told Joy News.

“We tried to get there as quickly as we can baring in mind the safety of the fire fighters. “...In this situation one may suggest that the slippery nature of the road (It had been raining all morning and was even drizzling at the time of the accident) could have contributed to the vehicle going off the road and falling on its side.

“We are not ruling out any foul play on the part of the field members, but what we can say is that whatever happens was in exercise of their mandate,” he said.



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