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Member of Parliament(MP) for Cape Coast North constituency in the central region, Dr Kwamena Minta Nyarku, has said even though Cape Coast is a cradle of education, a number of Basic Schools are unable to perform better to befit its status.

Thus there's poor performance in the basic schools.

He said one of the contributing factors according to, "our research was that our children in the basic schools lack desks to sit on in the classrooms so we picked an initiative dubbed 'operation 2000 desks' by targeting to providing 2000 desks for basic schools in the Constituency".

He emphasized that though there are no funds to support the cause, "this is our town and the children in these schools are our children. We must therefore make an effort to help them get desks to sit on in the classrooms to aid in their learning".

Dr Minta Nyarku disclosed this when he launched operation 2000 school desks and operation lights up in Cape Coast North.

In an interview with Peace News' Sally Ngissah, he mentioned that through his own resources he's been able to provide 75 classroom desks to the constituency, and "even after these 75, they will still need 2000 more desks".

He appealed to stakeholders and the general public to come and support the initiative to get classroom desks for these children.

Dr Minta Nyarku also revealed that there has been darkness in the Cape Coast township as well as the roadside which is causing armed robberies and rape cases in and around the communities to surge and is not giving a good image to the central regional capital.

He, therefore, donated street lights to all the educational institutions in the Cape Coast North constituencies.

He further donated about 200 street lights to all the 15 electoral areas for the assembly members to light up their communities.

Assembly members who received these street lights thanked the member of parliament and said this will go a long way to reduce crime rate in the communities especially where school children and workers are affected.