GNA

Madam Philipa Banson, Nkoranza South District Director of Education, on Friday asked parents of physically challenged children not to restrict the children at home and deny them education.

She gave the advice when she accompanied staff and inmates of Shalom Special School for Mentally Handicapped Children at Nkoranza to visit Mr Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, District Chief Executive (DCE), at his residence.

Madam Banson commended the staff of the school for their dedication to mentally handicapped children.

Mr Agyekum said the Assembly had decided to re-locate the school and provide it with more accommodation to enable it to admit more children and staff.

The DCE commended the children for their handiness as they played drums, sang and danced, as expressed themselves in Twi and the English language.

He asked parents of such children to enroll them in physically challenged schools “so that they will become useful in society, since it is only the dead who are useless”.

President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday said for the first time, Ghana has produced more than one million tonnes of cocoa in 2011, and the country's output last year, was more than 50 per cent of the produce in 2008 which was 680,000 tonnes.

He said in terms of the percentage of the world cocoa price paid to the farmer, Ghana out-performed every Government in the country's history.