THE management and students of the Asamankese Senior High School (ASASCO) in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region are calling on government to assist them with more infrastructural projects.
According to them, infrastructure in the school, which has been performing creditably in the popular National Science and Maths Quiz competition, are in a poor state.
According to the students, the boys’ dormitory of the school in particular is in a deplorable state and has been rated as the most dilapidated senior high school structure.
Bright Otoo, Assistant Boys’ Prefect of ASASCO, told DAILY GUIDE over the weekend that the students have no choice but to endure studying in dilapidated buildings, making learning difficult and uncomfortable.
According to him, apart from the congestion, the cemented floors have peeled off in all the rooms, with the nets torn, and only four out of some 30 rooms have access to electricity.
The students, therefore, made a passionate appeal to government, old students, the private sector, and well-meaning individuals to support in renovating the boys’ dormitory to prevent the structure from collapsing.
Speaking on the issue, the Assistant Headmaster (Domestic), Daniel Akonnor, allayed fears of a possible collapse of the building, stating that what the students describe as cracks and claim might lead to the structure coming down are marks deliberately left in the building by engineers for future expansion projects.
Mr. Akunnor, however, admitted that the school, particularly the boys’ dormitory block, needed a total facelift.
“The boys’ dormitory isn’t collapsing but needs to be mended and painted. The cracks you see in the building aren’t recent. They were left by the constructors to make way for expansion in future. But the lines are becoming more visible due to peeling of the plastering,” he noted.
He admitted that the boys’ dormitory block, the female halls and several other structures in the school had not seen major transformation for decades.
A school clinic project, an initiative by the school, in partnership with the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), had also been halted due to lack of funds, Mr. Akunnor disclosed further.
“I’m by this appealing to all past students of the ASASCO fraternity and well-wishers who can come to the aid of ASASCO to help us put this structure into use by the school,” he reiterated.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Asamankese