The Scholarship Secretariat has awarded full scholarships to 100 continuing senior high school students of New Obuasi, formerly Denkyira Obuasi, in the Central Region.
The scholarship scheme is in line with measures by the government in collaboration with stakeholders, to aid in the restoration of the town, which gained notoriety on May 29, 2017 for the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama, an army officer who was on duty there.
The scholarships followed a request by the leadership of the town about a month ago to rekindle education in the town after students and parents had fled the area following the gruesome murder of Major Mahama.
Kingsley Agyemang, the registrar of the Secretariat, made the disclosure when a delegation of elders of New Obuasi paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra, led by Dr Lawrence Tetteh, President of the UK-based Worldwide Miracle Outreach.
He said the scholarship, under the Secretariat’s “Hardship Scholarship,” would cater for second and third year students who are indigenes of the town (both day and boarding) to complete their courses up to the tertiary level.
He said this would ensure that the future of the children is secure and not jeopardized by the acts of others.
Okyeame Kwabena Asare, the chief linguist of New Obuasi, thanked the government for its support to rebuild the town.
Dr Tetteh announced that he would be holding a crusade in the town dubbed, “Denkyira-Obuasi Restoration Crusade,” scheduled from October 11 to October 13, 2017 at the Town Park.
Affail Monney, President of the Ghana Journalists’ Association who was part of the delegation, called on the media fraternity to sharpen its focus on the new horizon that has emerged in the town.
GNA