The Bolgatanga Municipality has been hit with widespread furniture shortage in most basic schools forcing about 52% of students to use inappropriate alternatives as furniture to have their studies.
A report that was submitted to the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly detailing the number of enrollment and the furniture situation in the municipality, detailed the widespread shortage of furniture in the over 40 schools in the region.
The report indicates that about 52% of students in the 43 schools in the municipality have no furniture and either sit on broken pieces of furniture, sit on blocks and many making do with the floor as the convenient surface to have their studies.
The furniture also revealed that the furniture shortage is even felt more at the KG and primary level. 50.5% and 48.5% of students respectively in the Municipal have no furniture to sit on for their studies.
The situation is however better at the JHS level with 33.2% of the students having to manage on their own to have their studies because of lack of furniture.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Hon Rex Asanga, in an interview on Word FM’s Word Community Watch Show, disclosed to Mr. Simon Agana that there are about 40 schools out of the 43 schools in the Municipality that has furniture challenges.
The Upper East Regional branch chairman of BONABOTO, Mr. Esmond Balfour also corroborated the figure of 40 schools without furniture.
The situation of furniture shortage is felt in all districts of the Upper East Region and it is more felt in the less developed districts.
By: Simon Agana Blessing/mywordfmonline.com