Defecation in classrooms: GES shuts down three schools

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has indefinitely closed down some 3 schools at Akyem Adjobue in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern Region. The schools namely Adjobue GCD L/A, Adjobue RC Primary and JHS and Adjobue Presby Primary and JHS were all closed down after some unscrupulous people in the town turned the schools into a ‘public toilet.’

For several years, school pupils and teachers have been scrubbing and washing faeces of the perpetrators. Desks, teachers tables and chairs as well as blackboards are mostly smeared with human excreta.

Madam Okyere Asabea, the Public Relation’s Officer of the Akyemansa District Education Directorate told Ultimate News’ Kojo Ansah, management took the ‘hard’ decision after several attempts by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to stop the people of the town from engaging in the illicit act proved futile.

According to Madam Asabea some two years ago, the District Education directorate held a durbar with the chiefs and people of the town to talk them out of the unholy act yet the people did not pay heed to their call. She added that there was another discussion with the people of the community last year to let them desist from the act yet to no avail.

‘Management therefore took the decision to close down the schools to let the people know that our teachers are also human beings and they have had enough,’ she said. According to the PRO, the schools will remain shut ‘until they desist from the act’.