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The Omanhene of the Aowin Traditional Area, Beyeeman Tano Kwaw Benbuin III, paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, yesterday at the Ministry of Education.

Nana was at the Ministry purposely to express the overwhelming gratitude of the chiefs and people of Aowin and on his own behalf to the minister for the assistance Dr Adutwum has given to the only Senior High School in his Traditional Area.

In 2019, Nana personally engaged Dr Adutwum—who was the then Deputy Minister of Education—in a conversation about Brentu Senior Technical High School’s (BSTHS) dire need for a new classroom block. Nana shared photos of the wooden structures built in the late 1960s which served as makeshift classrooms for the then Training College before the completion of the current Enchi College of Education by the Busia Administration.

Touched by Nana’s request and moved by the deplorable state of the classrooms, Dr Adutwum immediately saw to it that BSTHS was granted a 12-unit classroom block which is near completion.

During yesterday’s brief meeting, Dr Adutwum also assured the Omanhene of the Aowin Traditional Area of a new 64-seater bus for the school. In fact, there are ongoing discussions for a new school being spearheaded by the minister for the Aowin Municipality to help widen the educational net for schoolchildren.

Aowin seems to have been left behind by its peers of Wassa and Sefwi and these developments can only be seen in a positive light as helping Aowin catch up with its peers and benefit from Ghana’s educational agenda.