As a form of identification, a former Education Minister, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has urged management of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to name its projects and policies in every institution across the country.
According to him, this will bring to the attention of the general public the good works the Fund has embarked in present and time past.
Speaking in an interview monitored on Accra-based Woezor TV, Dr. Spio-Garbrah, acknowledged that Ghanaians are more interested to know more specially physical projects GETFund has created in various institutions in the country.
‘I’ll entice them to potentially go to the schools they have funded over the past 25 years and put some sign boards on the school compounds , particularly buildings, laboratories that they funded.
“Of course, they can’t put their sign on every laptop that possible they have procured. But they are ways of getting recognition of what they have done.”, the Chairman of the Africa Education Trust Fund (AETF) pointed out.
Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah also stated his role in the creation of GETFund under the presidency of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings.
“I’ll take partial credit for creating GETFund. What people don’t know is that GETFund was not created by a presidential decree. President Rawlings was the President at the time GETFund was created. He didn’t instruct me ‘Minister of Education come, we need something called Getfund’.
However, the Presidential Special Envoy for Reparation, assisting President John Mahama as AU Champion and Leader of Reparation, credited the entire GETFund as a brainchild idea of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
“Again, it’s not a novelty, Kwame Nkrumah established the Ghana Education Trust in 1960s. The Ghana Education Trust built the secondary schools in Ghana which have similar archecterial design. I believe Labone Secondary School and Accra Girls’ and some schools in the Cape Coast. When you see the design, they are all similar, and it’s not different from what what President Mahama did in building E-block schools”.
Source: www.kumasimail.com /Kwabena Danso-Dapaah
