The week started with the DCE leading a team to inspect this year’s BECE exams. In all 1841 candidates made up of 996 males and 845 females drawn from 78 schools, 59 public schools, and 19 private schools were expected to sit for the exams this year in Assin North.

The Nananom from Suaduman and Basofiman paid a visit to the office of the DCE to congratulate him and interact with him. Nananom led by Nana Aboagye Panin (l) Ahenemahene of Apemanim Traditional area and Odikro of Bediadua was full of praise to the DCE and the government for some infrastructure developments ongoing in the area ie road reshaping, CHPs compound, police station among others. They wished him well and appealed for more of such developmental projects in the area.

The DCE and his team of some Assembly staff and NADMO visited some houses at Assin Achiano to monitor and assess the extent of damage caused by a heavy storm which resulted in people losing thousands of properties. He pledged the assembly’s support and also going to liaise with NABMO to support the affected persons at this critical moment in their life.

The Assembly presented some youth artisans to Assin Fosu Zone to sit for the NVTI special exams. This was under the auspices of the GNPC Foundation skilled artisan project initiative implemented in collaboration with the Aseda Foundation. Youth artisans were drawn from Assin North, Assin Fosu Municipal, Assin South, and Abura Asebu Kwamankese.

The DCE of Assin North received a team from the Ministry of Energy who are in the district to help in the distribution of improved cookstoves for use solely by households. The project is part of the government’s agenda to combat climate change in Ghana. This exercise was made successful by the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the climate change center of South Korea. Over 3,000 improved cookstoves are expected to be distributed on a pilot based in the district.

The DCE led a team from CODA to inspect some ongoing projects in the district this week. Some critical projects that are almost completed will soon be commissioned for use.

The week ended with a General staff durbar at the assembly premises.

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As part of activities of the Assin North District Assembly to support Education in the district by ensuring the enhancement of good and quality education, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Charles Ohene Andoh, the Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. James Gyakye Quayson, and the District Director of Education (DDE), Mrs. Juliette Otami visited three (3) Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centers for the 2020/2021 Academic Year and interacted with the candidates. Accompanied by officers from the offices of the DCE, MP, and DDE, the team visited the Bereku Catholic, Assin North SHTS, and Akonfudi M/A JHS centers on Monday, November 15, 2021.

In his initial remarks, the MP encouraged the candidates to put in their all to come out with flying colors as they are the future of the district and the future of Ghana for that matter. He emphasized the need for the candidates to desist from examination malpractices as that could negatively affect them by having their results canceled.

He further used the opportunity to donate mathematical sets to the candidates to aid them in their final examinations and urged them to make very good use of the sets.

The DCE engaged with some supervisors of the centers to inquire about the status of activities at their various centers. By doing so, the team found that a few candidates were absent. Among them were girls who were unable to sit for the examination as a result of pregnancy. In an interview with the media, the DCE advised parents to allow their wards to sit for the examination even if they were pregnant. He added that the District Director of Education would follow up on such candidates and ensure that they are present for the rest of the examination period.

He encouraged the One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-One (1,841) candidates to be confident as they were only going to answer questions on topics they had already studied. He added that with the little effort they are able to make at this level, furthering their education will be much easier for them as they will be able to benefit from the government’s Free Senior High School (Free SHS) initiative.

The District Director of Education also used the opportunity to engage the invigilators to encourage them to make the effort to ensure a successful examination period.

Ending the visit, the DCE thanked all those present for taking time off their busy schedule to make it a point to make the visit to the centers fruitful. The team then wished candidates a successful examination.

A while ago today, the District Chief Executive presented 300 pieces of dual desks to the Education Directorate of the Assin North District for onward distribution to some Basic Schools in the District. This was an addition to the several efforts made to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the District as the intake of pupils had increased and social distancing has become a necessity.

Receiving on behalf of the Director of Education was, Mr. Pinnock Amoo-Tenkorang, the officer in charge of Finance and Planning expressing appreciation for the support from the District Assembly highlighting the need for education.

Accompanied by the District Chief Executive for Assin North District, Hon. Charles Ohene Andoh, the Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency, Hon. Abena Durowaah Mensah led a team from GNPC to hand over the site and cut sod for the construction of a 6-Unit Classroom Block at the new site for the Breku Methodist School. The MP and the DCE had earlier cut sod for the construction of a 3-Unit Classroom Block at the same site which is steadily ongoing. The effort to relocate the current school compound from the middle of the town to a new site seeks to make room for the construction of market stores and lorry parks in the middle of the town.

In attendance at the ceremony were Hon. Assembly Members, Nananom, and the general public.

Earlier today, the District Chief Executive of Assin North District, Hon. Charles Ohene Andoh, joined the District Director of Education, Mrs Juliette D. Otami, and her team to visit several basic schools in the District as part monitoring BECE Centres in the Assin North District.

Earlier today, we hosted the CDD-Ghana – Ghana Center for Democratic Development to hold a Constituency Stakeholder Workshop on tracking the implementation of the Government’s Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP).

The MP for Assin North Constituency, Hon. Abena Durowaa Mensah, and the DCE for Assin North District Assembly, Hon. Charles Ohene Andoh today donated items to the District Health Directorate to facilitate the objective of setting up the district’s main COVID-19 Isolation Center. The items included 2 zappy canopies, 5 orthopedic hospital beds, 5 mattresses, air conditioner among others, and were received by the Ag. District Director of Health Services, Mr. George Opoku-Asumadu.

Last January, The District Chief Executive of Assin North District along with the District Works Engineer and other officers inspected renovation exercise currently ongoing at Assin Praso and Assin Bereku markets.

Last year, the Assin North District Assembly supervised the construction of two dormitories and classroom block at the Assin North Senior High School to increase the intake capacity of the school, with the objective of ensuring the acquisition of basic education.

As part of measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the Assin North District, the District