The Headmaster of Suhum Ayekotse Ghanata M/A Basic Junior High School in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region Mr. Maxwell Atandji is lamenting over the dilapidated state of the Suhum Ayekotse Ghanata M/A Basic Junior High School (A) classroom block.
“The situation her is affecting our academic activities as school automatically closes due to the leakage roofings whenever it rains” Mr. Maxwell Atandji to DKMNEWS.NET.
The Suhum Ayekotse Ghanata basic JHS was established about a century ago and has never seen any renovation. The 3-unit classroom block is fast deteriorating and almost has become a death trap.
It’s roof has completely damaged with several sections leaking when it rains. A view of a classroom with a leaky roof.
Academic activities are often disrupted during the rainy season. At times when we are in the classroom and it is about to rain, because of the damages of the roofing sheets, we the teachers have to close the children to go home, that is very bad, the Headmaster Mr. Maxwell Atandji of the school bewailed.
He said sections of the damaged roofing, the school’s Parents Teachers Association began replacing the damaged roofing sheets but had to truncate the project due to lack of funds.
The Junior High School form 1 classroom blockwhich has it’s roofing sheets replaced, serves as a shelter for the entire school when it’s raining and the raining becomes heavy during contact hours.
Ghanata M/A JHS classroom block was established 1948, the students population is about 368 which also faced with a lack of furniture, no computer lab, no text books, this sitting posture may affect their spines and hurt their health, as they strive to achieve academic excellence in a congested
Some of the students said, they also don’t have desks to sit on and sometimes have to pair with our colleagues, they lamented.
They explained that, the unavailability of an Information Communication Technology lab is affecting their study of the discipline since they don’t have the opportunity to practice what they have been thought in theory.
The students are worried about the development in the school since it impedes on their education as young ones.
The Assembly Member for the Oforikrom Electoral Area, Hon. Emmanuel Amankwa indicated that, several attempts to get relevant instuition to renovate the structure have proved futile for many years.
He hopes government and philanthropic organisations would come and support the school to help renovate the dilapidating classroom block and provide the students body with enough furniture to penance academic activities.
