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Mr. Albert Osei-Banahene, Assemblyman for Nsuase Electoral Area at Adum in Kumasi, has vehemently rejected plans by the Adum Presby Church to privatize the Adum Presby School. The Presbyterian Church Ghana Ramseyer Memorial Congregation is reportedly contemplating converting the Adum Presby School into a non-Governmental school, to which proposal the Assemblyman has kicked against. The Assemblyman has consequently petitioned the Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, the Presiding member of the KMA as well as the Adumhene, Baffour Agyei Kesse IV, defending his position that the local Presby School is the only public school in Nsuase Electoral Area, being the Central Business District (CBD) of the Metropolis. He said most of the residents are not in the position to afford private school tuition should the school be converted as planned. He noted that in the event of the school being turned into a private one, parents cannot afford the bills when the school is privatised neither can they afford to take their children elsewhere because of the cost of transportation, which he said will force lot of pupil to be dropped out of school. Osei-Banahene has, therefore, urged the Metro Director of Education to reject the request by the Ramseyer family to ensure peace and tranquility within the vicinity. He indicated that the Adum Presbyterian has demolished a school unit Classroom block built during the pre-independence era, three unit pavilion by the Ghana Educational Service, two Unit Classroom by the parent and Teachers Association (PTA) and a three Unit Classroom block by Social Investment Fund Project (SIF), a non-Governmental Organisation to pave way for the construction of Presby Church building and Adum Presby School Block. The Nsuase Assembly stated emphatically that: �pulling down Government /Public School premises to reconstruct same cannot be a private property, whereas the state has not declined ownership of the Adum Presby Primary School�.