V/R: Leklebi SHS students sleep in decrepit, frail clay structure

Students of Leklebi Senior High School in the Afadjato-South district of the Volta region continue to sleep in an age-old dilapidated clay structure as a 400-bed GETfund-sponsored dormitory project started in 2011 has been abandoned by the Contractor, MAPP-H for the past two years.

The situation has also compelled the school authorities to convert some classrooms into makeshift dormitories in order to accommodate fresh students.

The decrepit four-room structure, which houses about 80 male students has its roof leaking with no proper ceiling. The floors and walls are also fraught with cracks.

A second-year student, Frank, told STARR NEWS’ Volta regional correspondent Lambert Atsivor in an interview that they are forced to abandon classes to go and collect rain water which leaks through the roofs of the frail structure or risk sleeping on wet beds at night.

Headmistress of the School, Charity Calai also complained that the delay in the completion of the dormitory and two other classrooms, has adversely affected the enrolment of students into the 47-years-old school.

Meanwhile Deputy Volta regional Minister Francis Ganyaglo, who visited the school recently, has revealed that the Contractor was given some money, not too long ago, to complete the project. He therefore, was puzzled by the delay.