Jul 19, 2012 at 6:08am

President John Evans Atta Mills has said his administration has an enviable measurable record of achievements.

He said in spite of the significant successes chalked up by the government, in three-and-a-half years, it would not relent on its efforts to make more development projects available to the people.

President Mills, who was inaugurating a three-storey 18-unit classroom block at the Salvation Army Cluster of Schools at Laterbiokorshie in Accra Wednesday said: “Those who said we have not done anything can see everything for themselves.”

The President said he recognised education as the bedrock of the country’s human resource development base and that “we will not lose sight of the significant role education plays in our forward march agenda.”

He said the government would continue the crusade to eliminate schools under trees and transform them into modern educational institutions that were housed under brick and mortar.

He, therefore, urged all children to take advantage of those opportunities to educate themselves to enable them meet the challenges of the time.

President Mills enumerated some of the achievements of the government in the areas of the supply of laptops, expansion of electricity supply to schools, increase in school feeding fees, supply of school uniforms, among others and said more development would be directed to that sector.

The Minister of Education, Mr Lee Ocran, in a remark, said the edifice was a practical intervention of the Better Ghana agenda. He added that “investing in people means educating people and solving their needs.” He said governance was about work that would improve the lot of the majority of the people, but not “wasting time on peripheral issues.”

In a welcome address, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, said the shift system had outlived its usefulness.

He added that hitherto, about 89,000 pupils were not getting access to education due to the shift system. He said although, the decision to eliminate the shift system posed some initial challenges, the metropolitan assembly was able to overcome those challenges and made a bold decision to end the system.