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Obuasi Complex Junior High School has been awarded the Anglogold Ashanti 2020 Annual Questionnaire Competition held in Obuasi.
Obuasi Complex claimed 60 points to win the award, beating Independence JHS ‘A’ and ‘B’, and Sanso JHS.
Sanso JHS came in second with 35 points while Independence JHS ‘A’ and ‘B’ won third and fourth places with 32 and 22 points respectively.
As a prize, Complex took home four computers, a printer, four boxes of BIC pens, 200 exercise books, two dictionaries for his library, and a trophy.
The contestants also received a tablet each, backpacks, 20 exercise books each, 10 paper-covered notebooks each, dictionary, math game, and a gold medal.
The annual quiz, which is organized in collaboration with the Obuasi East and Municipal District Education Directorates, was part of AngloGold Ashanti’s Educational Improvement Program (EIP), which involved 43 schools in both districts.
At the award ceremony, AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine Senior Sustainability Manager, Mr. Emmanuel Baidoo, said that the Education Improvement Plan was one of the strategic pillars in the Social Management Plan launched last year to help diversify and grow Obuasi’s economy while ensuring development in host communities.
The EIP, he emphasized, was aimed at increasing the pass rate on the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Obuasi from 81 percent to 90 percent by 2021.
Municipal Chief Executive Elijah Adansi Bonah said the quiz show had become the foundation of education at Obuasi.
He urged parents to support their children and encourage them to participate in the questionnaire whenever it was organized.
Mr. Adansi Bonah also urged the municipality’s students to take their studies seriously so that they can access higher education on the KNUST Obuasi campus, which was recently commissioned by the president, Nana Akufo-Addo.
Ms. Leticia Obeng, Obuasi East District Director of Education, said her team had a memorandum of understanding with AGA to see the development of education in Adansi and, in particular, in Obuasi.
The quiz was one of many interventions to help in the development of education and had created the platform for both students and teachers to learn and prepare well.
Teacher Jeffery Asiedu, a contestant from Obuasi Complex School, expressed his joy and thanked AGA for the show.
Nana Amoanimaa Dede, Adansihemaa, expressed her gratitude to AGA for the effort to improve education in Obuasi and the Adansi enclave.
He also urged students to get serious about their education and work toward future success.
