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Pupils of Kweikuma Metro Authority (M/A) Basic School in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region live in constant fear as the compound and surroundings of their school block floods anytime it rained .
The situation, which had persisted for over a decade has affected the school’s enrolment as parents have withdrawn their wards to the nearby schools for fear of any misfortune.
This was made known when the GNA visited the school recently.
The largest class has about twenty pupils while the other classrooms have been closed and given to churches that have assisted the school in various ways.
Against this backdrop, the school authorities made a passionate appeal to the Metro Authority, the Ghana Education Service (GES), corporate organizations, individuals and benevolent organizations to come to their aid.
It was observed that the area lacked proper drainage system whereas the bridge leading to the school’s compound had collapsed therefore allowing running water to overflow its banks and find its way to the school compound and the classrooms.
The JHS block has no drains, which allows the water to forcibly flow through the doors flooding the classrooms. Meanwhile, the drain at the back of the primary block is too small to contain the running water since the school is in a valley.
When the PTA Chairman, Mr Acquah Harrison was contacted, he expressed concern that all efforts to get the Metro Authority, the Ghana Education Service and other corporate organizations to come to their aid had yielded no results.
According to him, parents of the few pupils left in the school are not comfortable anytime the weather threatens to rain.
The situation, he said, also affected teaching and learning, leading to poor academic performance of the children despite the efforts of the teachers.
He said the school needed a fence wall to prevent residents from turning the school’s toilet into a public toilet and to reduce the amount of water that passes through.
