The form one girls of the Bomaa Senior High School (SHS) in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region have appealed for a fence wall to improve security and ward off criminals and stray animals.
They bemoaned the lack of a fence wall that had opened up the school to criminal activities such as theft and burgling, while it had also contributed to a high level of indiscipline among boys and girls which had created a leeway for most of them to visit the Bomaa town regularly without exeat.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the students also appealed for improved educational infrastructure and washrooms to facilitate serious academic work.
The students made the appeal when Dr Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North visited and interacted with the students.
Dr Prempeh also a Minister of State in charge of Works and Housing was in the school to inspect science and laboratory equipment she lobbied for the school when it qualified for this year’s National Science and Mathematics Quiz competition.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) presented the items to the school to prepare the students adequately for the quiz competition, but unfortunately, authorities had shelved the equipment at the school’s dilapidated library due to the lack of a science laboratory.
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Ms Hannah Afriyie, a form one student regretted the school was lagging in infrastructure development, as compared to others in the cities and bigger towns and pleaded with the government to assist the school in that regard, as matter of urgency.
“Since we were admitted, we have realized many of our seniors run away to town at night because security in the school remained porous and I think we need a fence wall”, she said.
“The uncontrolled movements of strange boys around the compound, particularly during weekends is also a great worry”, Ms. Regina Azure, another form one student indicated.
Mr. Doosaa Kaawaanio, the Assistant Headmaster of the School later told the GNA the construction work on a standard science laboratory, a library, and an administration block had been stalled for some months now.
He expressed concern about the unavailability of boys and girls dormitories, which was contributing to indiscipline among boarding students, and appealed to the government, the Ghana Education Trust Fund, and corporate bodies to come to their aid.
Later interacting with the girls, Dr. Prempeh advised them not to allow anything to affect their studies, saying quality education remained the surest and greatest legacy of life.
She assured to follow up with their concerns, and advised them to be wary of bad students or friends whose bad influence could truncate their education and ruin their lives.
The MP entreated the students to stay off social media, use the internet to research, and concentrate on their books to enable them to pass their examinations well and further to achieve high academic laurels.
