DEVELOP NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY — GOVT URGED (OCT 2, PAGE 29)

THE Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Ghana, Mr Alhassan Andani, has called on the government to develop an effective national youth policy to ensure a fruitful future for Ghanaian youth.
Mr Andani expressed concern about the fact that successive governments had paid lip- service to issues concerning the youth, who are the nation’s heartbeat, and called on stakeholders to consider involving them in development debates as they are the ones who would be taking the mantle of leadership tomorrow.
He made the call at the induction of the newly elected President of Rotary Club of Tema, Mr John Bisiw.
Mr Bisiw noted that an estimated GH¢ 1.1 billion police station project which was initiated by the club last year was almost completed.
He said the project would serve Communities 6, 10 ,11 and 12 whose residents often had to travel as far as Community 2 to enable them to lodge complaints.
The police station, which is currently being roofed, has a charge office, male, female and juvenile cells, as well as a four-unit office for the personnel, he said.
Mr Bisiw pledged the club’s commitment to equipping the youth to face future challenges, hence the provision of a community library for the Gbetsile Cluster of Schools, a less-endowed school within the metropolis.
He announced that the club was sponsoring about 700 school pupils from nursery through primary and junior high school level and called for support to fight illiteracy, malaria, hunger, AIDS and other forms of deprivation.
The immediate past President of the club, Mr Ben Richard Aniagyei, expressed profound appreciation to members for their support and assistance during his tenure of office.
He commended all companies, individuals and Rotarians whose contributions in cash and kind made it possible for the club to undertake its projects.
Mr Aniagyei urged the new president to work in close collaboration with his board members to achieve the club’s objectives.
The Rotary Club of Tema, which is currently distributing books worth over $45million to equip school and other institutional libraries, also called for public cooperation to help arrest the decline in the falling standards of education in the country.
Some Rotarians were presented with Paul Harris Fellowship awards for their humanitarian service.