GES Director-General visits Wioso SHS (Alma Mater Education) and Mankranso SHS in the Ahafo Ano South West District.

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Prof Earnest Kofi Davis, on Thursday, May 29, 2025, visited Wioso Senior High School, also known as Alma Mater Education and Mankranso Senior High School in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region.

During his visit, he paid a courtesy call to the District Chief Executive, Hon. Abubakar Sedik to announce his presence in the District. The Hon DCE briefed him on the challenges the District is facing in the education sector.

Hon. Abubakar Sedik touched on the inadequate teachers and the uncompleted GETfund projects in the District. He noted that completing the uncompleted school buildings in the District will help curb the overcrowding situation of pupils in the classroom.

Prof Earnest Kofi Davis pledged his willingness to address the challenges of the District to ensure that all children in the Ahafo Ano South West District have access to quality education.

Prof Davis visited the newly constructed Boys' dormitory of Mankranso Senior High School which was scheduled to be completed in 2020. He noted that he would notify the Minister of Education about the completion of the dormitory to ease the congestion in the Boys' dormitory of the school.

He added that the completion of all uncompleted structures in the Senior High Schools will help the government's vision of eliminating the double-track system in public Senior High Schools, which is a system where students attend different periods to accommodate limited space.

At Wioso Senior High School, Prof Davis assured the Chief and elders of Wioso and the management of the school that, the process of government absorbing the school has started as requested by the Toni Gann Foundation, who are the managers of the School. In all, 49 teaching and non-teaching staff will be absorbed and put on the government's payroll.

Chief of Wioso, Nana Assaw Ababio thanked the Director General for the visit and asked him to provide Wioso Senior High School with a bus to facilitate the movement of the students when there are programmes outside the school premises. He also requested a computer lab, library and official vehicle for the Headteacher.

Prof Earnest Kofi Davis was accompanied by Charles Agyemang Duah, Director of Schools, Dr Amankrah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Thomas Kwame Boateng, Ashanti Regional Deputy Director of Education, Osei Boateng, Public Relations Officer for the Ashanti Regional Education Directorate, Hon. Abubakar Sedik, DCE, Ahafo Ano South West District Assembly, Justine Kwasi Gbotor, District Director of Education, Paul Atsu Agebezudor, District Coordinating Director, District Directors of Education for Ahafo Ano South East and Ahafo Ano North and some staff of the District Education Directorate.