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UE/R: Pupils, teachers walk 1km to drink water, use the toilet

Pupils and teachers of the Salebuga Junior High School in the Upper East Region have to walk 1 or 2 kilometres to have access to potable water and use the toilet on a daily basis.

Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, a teacher of the school, Mr Simon Awinsoga disclosed that the school has over 200 pupils but lacks the most basic of amenities.

Mr Awinsoga told show host Benjamin Akakpo that: “Our school is located in the Bongo District, Upper East Region. We lack a lot of facilities – we lack water facilities, we lack toilet facilities, we don’t have a library, we don’t have a computer lab, so, our pupils walk a long way so they can get water to drink during breakfast – one or two kilometres.  We go to a nearby community to get water.”

He also noted that the pupils and teachers have to walk a kilometre when nature calls.

According to the teacher, the situation has prevailed since he moved to the community in 2019.

Touching on whether the District Chief Executive has been engaged to help the situation, Mr Awinsoga noted: “I have not done that but when I was asking, they said because there’s no land, those who own the land around this place are not willing to release the land for them to construct toilets and certain things.”

Ahead of the release of the findings by the National Inspectorate Board on the state of some schools it has inspected so far across the country, checks by Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) has revealed that some schools are not only dilapidated but their pupils, students and teachers are compelled to learn and teach, respectively, under the harshest of conditions imaginable.

On Monday, 17 January 2020, the EBS put the spotlight on first-year Home Economics students of the Ningo Senior High Technical School at Ningo in the Greater Accra Region who sit on the bare floor for classes due to lack of desks.

The students, who number over 40, have only about 10 desks to share.

Confirming the state of the school on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Monday, two old students indicated that the Form 1 Home Economics classroom is among three other classrooms with less than 10 desks.

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Source: Classfmonline.com

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