Ho, April 04, GNA - Togbe Kwasi Adiko V, Paramount Chief
of Tanyigbe Traditional Area, has appealed to the government to
provide dormitories, staff bungalows and fence wall for the
Tanyigbe Senior High. He students were taking advantage of the lack of these
facilities to loiter in town at will. "I am not happy seeing female and male students in town
both day and night while they should be in school learning," he
said in an interview with the GNA. Togbe Adiko said the situation had deteriorated to the extent
that increasing numbers of female students were getting pregnant. Ms Agnes Afesi, Headmistress of the School, told the GNA
that some boys in town were taking advantage of the situation to
"camp and sexually abuse female students." She said because the School lacked bungalows for staff,
only one house master was on the campus watching over 500
students. "Girls in the School hostel and day students move about and
before one realizes, they vanish through a nearby bush into town
sometimes rendering the classrooms half empty," Ms Afesi said. She said the School also has challenges such as inadequate
classrooms, ICT laboratory, library, toilets and urinals among
others and appealed to past students and the Ghana Education
Trust Fund and the Member of Parliament for the Area to help
address the infrastructure challenges. Last year Tanyigbe Ladies Club) raised some funds to build
a Girls' Hostel for the School following reports that some girls
from neighbouring communities were being hosted by some men
in town. 04 April 11
