Oguaa Secondary Technical cries for infrastructural development

Cape Coast, March 30, GNA - The Assistant Headmaster of Oguaa Secondary Technical School, Mr Philip Amonoo, on Tuesday said the school was looking up to the government to provide infrastructure before September else it would not be able to admit new students.

Mr Amonoo, who made this known in an interview with the GNA, said the school lacked classrooms, laboratories, dinning hall, an assembly hall and a tutors' common room.

The school at Ekon in Cape Coast is being housed in temporary structures. The assembly hall has no windows and is also being used as a dinning and examination hall.

The road leading to the school is rough and Mr Amonoo said whenever it rains the school had to stop classes because the roof leaks. He said a one story building built by the GETFund for first and third year students is inadequate as school's population of more than 800 might increase in the next academic year.

Mr Amonoo said about 150 students lodge in a private hostel near the school and when asked about their academic performance he added that it was so far satisfactory but more needed to be done to improve upon it. He said tutors had to "hang around" under trees because the school has no tutors' common room.

Mr Amonoo said the PTA of the school is doing its best and was building a summer hut to serve as a tutors' common room but the pace of work was slow and appealed to the government to provide classrooms and other structures to save it from its present predicament. Some students and tutors who spoke to the GNA re-echoed calls to the government for help to enhance teaching and learning and said the current state of affairs was "disturbing".