“Education and the role of a teacher”: Hon. Alban Bagbin tells his story
Hon. Alban Bagbin, Member of Parliament, (MP) and Majority Leader has said that “this year, for August alone, I have paid over 43200Gh₵ as school fees for students across all the educational sectors — teacher training college, Nursing training college, polytechnic, and university,” as he showed a list indicating the payments to TheBridge reporter as evidence for this story. “Education and the roll of the teacher in education;” according to the Hon. MP, “these two are the passion that keeps me moving”. He said he had developed the passion from childhood. “How I myself got enrolled into school, I had to weep and wail to scratch my parents to allow me to go school.” The Hon. Majority Leader said his father who believed in fairness and was polygamous with three surviving wives at that time, thought a child from each of his wives should be send to school. He said his mother was the second among the three surviving wives. The Hon. MP who was the second chil...