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Beware of tricksters - Rural dwellers
advised
Awutu-Akrabong (C/R), March 8, Ghanadot/GNA-People in rural
areas, particularly the illiterate, have been advised to
guard against activities of charlatans who would want to
capitalize on their unfortunate situations to dupe them when
the change over from the current cedi notes to new ones in
July this year.
Even though the exercise has about five more months to
become operational, effective mechanisms should be put in
place to check such abuses so that they did not rear their
ugly heads at all.
Mr. Francis Atoh Doughan, Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Co-ordinator
of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO),
gave the advice at the inauguration of a 30-member
functional literacy group at Awutu-Akrabong in the Central
Region.
Mr. Doughan, who represented the District Chief Executive
for Awutu-Effutu-Senya, Solomon Kwashie Abbam-Quaye, also
counselled farmers, palm wine tappers, smokers and hunters
in the district to ensure proper handling of fire to protect
the ecology against bushfires.
Mr. Atta Asante-Agyei, Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Director
of the Non Formal Education Division of the Ministry of
Education (NFED), emphasised the importance of the mass
education towards national and community development and
advised the illiterate in the district who have not
registered with any functional educational group to do so.
He outlined the numerous benefits they stand to gain from
the various literacy educational activities the NFED had
programmed for the people and charged the Akrabong group to
strive to bring all illiterate people in and around the
village under its fold for them to enjoy the fruits of the
NFED.
Madam Hanna Eshun, the District Births and Deaths officer,
advised people in the rural communities to endeavour to
register the children they produce as well as the deaths
that occurred in their respective communities to help the
Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly plan its development
programmes successfully.
GNA
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