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Tertiary students asked to be engine
of growth
Tamale, July 8, GNA- Students in tertiary institutions in
the country have been asked to consider themselves as the
engine of growth of the country and work towards national
development.
They should also become role models and galvanize their
people towards progress since governments alone could not
provide the people with all their needs.
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Makenba
Broadcasting Company, operators of Diamond FM based in
Tamale, gave the advice at a meeting organised by the
Polytechnic branch of Kassena Nankana Students Union (KANASU)
at Tamale at the Weekend.
The meeting enabled the students to take stock of the past
year and to see how best they could promote education and
mobilizing funds for development in their various areas.
Mr. Woyongo appealed to the students to support their people
to initiate self-help projects and to rekindle their
communal spirit for development.
He said effective mobilization of people to undertake
self-help projects would help develop the communities in the
Northern part of the country to prevent rural-urban drift.
Mr. Woyongo urged National Service Personnel to accept
postings to rural areas to enable them serve their people.
Mr. Abdallah Ababakari Bawa Ayongo, president of KANASU,
called on eminent people from the Northern part of the
country to contribute to the development of their
communities to justify investments made in their education
by their parents.
Mr. Ayongo commended Mr. Mark Woyongo for investing in the
communication industry in the Northern part of the country
and urged others people from the area to emulate that
example.
Mr. Sabastian Achana, a research officer at the Navrongo
Health Research Centre, advised the students to take their
studies seriously to enable them pass their examinations.
GNA
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