Prez Mahama, Wife Donate Laptops To Alma Mater

Prez Mahama and Wife

President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, the First Lady Mrs. Lordina Mahama, have made a joint donation of one hundred laptops and 250 exercise books to their alma mater, Ghana Senior High School (Ghanasco) in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital.

According to the Northern Regional Minister Moses Bukari Mabengba who made the donation on behalf of the President and his wife, the gesture was intended to boost science, mathematics and Information, Communication and Technology education in the school.

This donation, the minister noted, was also to add up to an earlier pledge by President Mahama about a year ago during the celebration of the school’s fiftieth anniversary, which included the fencing of the entire school land and the construction of a new girls’ dormitory. 

The minister admonished the students to take their studies seriously and desist from engaging in truancy, dodging to town as well as indulging in other nefarious activities that could jeorpadise their future.

Mr. Mabengba told the students to be happy and thankful of the fact that, the President of the republic and his wife were old students of the school, saying that alone should motivate them to aim high as they were in school.

Mr. Mabengba personally, also donated a cash amount of GH¢1,000.00 to the school and urged the authourities to use the money to buy mathematics textbooks to stock their library so that students could make good use of them in their studies.

Additionally, Mr. Mabengba again donated a cash amount of GH¢500.00 to Kabral House Ghanasco which he recently adopted, for their sterling performance during an inter-housing sports competition organised by the school.

Receiving the donation on behalf of the school, the Headmistress of Ghanasco Mrs. Mary Asobayire Dan-Braimah, expressed her heartfelt gratitude to President Mahama and his wife Mrs. Mahama, for their unflinching support towards the development of the school.

Meanwhile, Assistant Headmaster of Ghanasco in charge of Administration Chief N.A. Dramani told Savannahnews in an interview that, since the establishment of the school over fifty years ago, it had continued to make progress in the field of science and mathematics education especially being the first second cycle institution in Africa to launch a locally made rocket into space.

According to him, they school had not relaxed on its oars and always came top or second placed at any science and mathematics quiz competition organized locally or nationally.

In view of these significant achievements, Chief Dramani said Ghanasco was recently given four scholarships by the Indian Government to sponsor brilliant students to go to India and study science.