Give us computers – residents of Nsuta Ashanti cry out to President Mahama



Junior High School students in some parts of Ghana are yet to see and touch a computer, despite having to write Information and Communications Technology examination, with their peers elsewhere.

Teachers reveal many students confuse the mouse of the modern communication device with the rodent pest they see around.

Ghana Education Service officials’ lack of computers for the schools makes a mockery of teaching and learning of ICT.


The Chiefs and people of Nsuta in the Asiwa District of the Ashanti Region invited Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor to draw attention to a similar plight and other challenges plaguing their community.

Nsuta is the nerve center for about 14 cocoa- growing communities in the Bosome- Freho Constituency.

The people, mostly farmers, are saddled with many challenges, among others, in education, healthcare and transportation.

The town, surrounded by about 21 smaller communities, has only one Junior High School, housed in an old structure.

The building has three windowless small, below-standard classrooms, each accommodating about 80 students, crammed in them during school hours.

Schools in other parts of the district have weaker structures, according to official information.

Perhaps, more worrying is the fact that these students who write ICT examination with the rest of Ghana have never seen a computer before.

Christopher Damptey Mensah, GES Circuit Supervisor for the area, told a durbar of chiefs and people that in some communities’ students still confuse a computer mouse with a real mouse.

“If you talk of mouse, those who can use the computer know what is mouse but others will think it is the mouse in the house which the cat runs after. At Anomoobi they had no computer at all. These schools learn about the computer on the blackboard,” he said.

All health emergencies and general ailments from the about 21 farming communities end up at this CHPS-COMPOUND manned by about five enrolled and community health nurses.

It has room to keep patients for only 24 hours.

“We have made arrangements with some drivers, so when theres an emergency, they take patients to New Edubiase. Sometimes they have to be transported on motorbikes,” the nurses said.

The entire population of the town, including the chief, Nana Kofi Kumi II, converge around this small hill, near the school to make and receive telephone calls because it is the only spot for mobile phone reception.
“There’s nothing like a private conversation in this town,” some worried indigenes told Luv News.

Construction of the road from New Edubiase to adjoining towns has commenced under the cocoa roads project but the Chiefs and people of Nsuta are worried work will not reach the town which is the nerve centre of cocoa farming in the area.

The simple message to government and Ghanaians for which the people of Nsuta invited Erastus is: “come to our aid”.



Source: Myjoyonline

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