Headmaster of the Bolgatanga Senior High School( Bigboss )in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region is calling on stakeholders to consider extending help to school relative to infrastructure provision
Mr Anthony Adimazoya made the call after the Parent Teacher Association of the school renovated two boys’ dormitories.
He highlighted some of the facilities that were in urgent need; the school dinning hall, Mandela Ampofo dormitory block, old and new science block, the old administration block, most classrooms as well as teachers bungalows.
“Bigboss facilities are wretched, so wretched, I think you are just looking at the dinning hall when you enter there you wouldn’t like it, especially the kitchen part of it, the roof is not good and we need to refurbish it with new roof, apart from this dormitory, the other dormitories are not good, they have just spoken about Mandela Ampofo and other dormitory blocks, we also need renovation in those blocks.
This is our science block, the main science block for the school, the roof is leaking ,it was reported to me and I had to quickly organized to get some funds to see how we could patched up the leaking roof, but if you were to visit there and go into the rooms, you will see that, that block need complete renovation.
Look at the our classrooms, this one is not quite long but it is already so dilapidated, the other one that is the oldest, it has develops some majors cracks ,so I have to get to the district assembly to get the engineer to come and do an assessment on it because we were afraid that if the building is weak one day it can cause a disaster for us, the assembly actually agree and brought the engineer to do the assessment and what they advised is we need to do some patching but the foundation is OK, where to get money to do the patching is a problem”.
Mr Anthony Adimazoya also bemoaned how the old magnificent administration block is falling apart due to what engineers described as structural defects.
Teachers’ bungalows are said to be leaking and thus need urgent renovation.
“The old administration block, that giant block that is standing by the road side the top is falling ,we don’t actually know the problem but engineers said there is a structural defects at the foundation level ,which we need to work on so we sought for advised and they have asked us to write and come see them so that maybe they can incorporate it in their midyear review budget God willing nextvyear when they get money ,they will come to our aid, as for the teachers bungalows the least said about them the better, I entered one of the teachers bungalows I realised that in fact that teacher is doing very well, the whole hall is leaking, when it’s rains there is water all over and the teacher complained that even in the bedroom when its raining in the night ,they have to wake up in the night and put containers at vantage points to collect water not until it finished raining they are not able to sleep ,its all throughout in the bungalows in the school.
Our prayer is that government comes to our aid, but if the government is not getting the need resources, our parents can support us ,our old students can also support us. “
Word news can confirm that one of the school bungalows which was gutted by fire some years ago has since not been fixed, this has compelled most teachers to commute from Bolga and other parts of the region to school daily, a situation said to be affecting and learning.
Source:mywordfmonline.com/Gaspard Ayuureneeya