Cracks on the wall
Some parents with children at the Kulbia Primary School in the Sumburungu suburb of the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region have started threatening to withdraw their children from the school and stop other children from attending the school if the structures of the school continue to remain dangerous to the children.
Established some decades ago in the Bolgatanga West B Circuit, Kulbia Primary Junior High School has not seen any significant rehabilitation, resulting in its current state of deterioration.
The primary school, with a population close to 400 students, cannot boast of good and safe infrastructure as well as furniture for the pupils to use.
Pupils from Primary One to Four and even a sizable portion of Primary Five do not have seats and tables. As a result, the pupils sit on either the bare floor or on broken blocks to listen to their teachers and write lesson notes.
It took the intervention of some concerned parents and other community members to draw the attention of the media to the plight of the pupils of Kulbia Primary School.
Assembly member of Kulbia Electoral Area Amitoriba Gabriel told Journalists that the big cracks in the walls of the school are dangerous and are possible hiding places for reptiles. Besides, they could collapse on the children if any heavy wind blows against any of the walls.
“The school has 13 trained teachers, and they also feel threatened just like their pupils. During the rainy season, the lower primary classes have to always come to a halt because anything can happen. They have no dual desks; they sit or lie on the floor to write. This is a big problem for the school,” the assembly member disclosed.
A Community Activist Elias Ayinbila Apasiya, who has been campaigning for the school to be rehabilitated, told DAILY GUIDE that several letters written to the assembly to come to the aid of the school have not yielded any positive result.
He wants Corporate Ghana and philanthropic organizations to help the school with furniture and funds to rehabilitate the cracked structures, especially those accommodating the Lower Primary Level of the school.
Kulbia Primary School structures have become death traps and dangerous to the occupants, yet many parents enroll their children there every term or on a yearly basis.
The Kulbia Primary School is among schools benefitting from the school feeding programme in the Bolgatanga West B Circuit.
FROM: Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Kulbia