Ramsey N. Singbeh, Jr
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Margibi County District Number Five Representative, Clarence Gleekan Gahr who is also the Joint Public Account Committee Chairman of the House of Representatives says if the bill seeking to make the Booker Washington Institute or BWI a University cancels the regular program of the school, he will fight against it enactment into law when it surfaces at the level of the House.
A while ago, Senator McGill introduced two education bills, including a bill to repeal the outdated 1976 Amended Act governing the Booker T. Washington Institute (BWI) under which the institution would be renamed the Booker T. Washington Institute of Agricultural and Industrial University College (BWI-AIUC).
But while speaking in the county recently when made an appearance on a special feature radio program where he addressed a series of talking points inclusive of the purchase of two earth moving equipment (yellow machines) which were secured by him for his district, he seriously vowed to resist the bill if it tempers with the BWI regular program.
He stated, “I will support the bill with a condition, that the regular program should not be cancelled. If it is cancelled, we will fight it. I’m clear to you. The intent of the dreamer that established BWI was to train middle class technicians.”
Relating to himself as a beneficiary and alumnus of BWI, he noted that the level of education provided by the institution helped him to rise up to the position of a deputy chief accountant when he worked with the Salala Rubber Corporation or SRC after his graduation from BWI where he studied accounting.
This, he indicated happened before he acquired university education.
According to him, there are a lot of contributors to Liberia and the larger society today who were taught by BWI as middle class technicians but they have not acquire university education, reemphasizing that the bill will be supported if the regular program of BWI remains in tight.
He added that the Booker Washington Institute has sufficient land space that can provide area for the building of a university, calling on the crafter(s) and introducer of the bill and the government to make efforts in securing funding to build the university.
The lawmaker stated that there is no other person who loves the BWI like someone who graduated from the school.
Representative Gahr spoke that a student who makes a pass to the 10th grade class in Liberia automatically gets qualified to apply for BWI’s regularly program which covers a lot of vocational and technical skills to start to practice his or her career.
Any attempt, he narrated that undermines the regular program will mean that the BWI has lost its substance.
The Booker Washington Institute was established in 1929 as Liberia’s premier technical and vocational institution, committed to training middle-level technicians such as mechanics, electricians, plumbers and many others.
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