ACHIMOTA PRIMARY IN DEPLORABLE STATE
SRUCTURES of the Achimota Primary School are currently in a deplorable condition and pose a threat to the lives of pupils. Pupils of the school have been studying in the temporal wooden structures which were built in 1959.
A visit to the school by the Daily Graphic revealed that for the past 52 years, the school had not seen any major rehabilitation work.
This reporter visited the school when old students of the school made a presentation to the school’s sick bay. The presentation was made possible through the benevolence of Maxim Cosmetics and the items included disinfectants, liquid soap and paints.
All the classrooms are without windows while some of the wood used in the construction work are worn out and at the verge of collapse.
Most disheartening is the fact that the classrooms are packed with about 50 pupils being attended to by one teacher, whilst the pupils have no option than to write on broken desks.
The Headmaster of the Basic Department, Mr Frank Armah, said he had written several petitions to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to come to the aid of the school but all to no avail.
He said the compound which was once green was now bare with no grass to check erosion.
Mr Armah added that, any time it rained heavily classes were disrupted because there were no windows in the classrooms to prevent the rains from entering.
He also bemoaned the situation where “trotros” drivers drove through the school compound during prep hours in a bid to avoid traffic on the main road, adding that, their activities affected studies at prep periods.
This, he said, was due to the fact that the school was not walled, therefore creating room for unauthorised people to walk in and out of the school at their own pleasure.
H e added that, the opening of the new Achimota Transport Terminal had given way for thieves to enter the school’s compound and expressed the hope that the school would be walled to ward off the activities of thieves.
Mr Armah was therefore grateful to the old students who had taken it upon themselves to ensure that the Basic Department of the school was upgraded to enhance teaching and learning.
He also called on all old students to “put their hands on deck” to help develop the Achimota Basic School.
Expressing her disappointment at the state of deterioration of the school, an old student, Mrs Kate Williams Baffour, said it was about time old students of the Achimota Basic School came together to help the school regain its former glory.
She expressed the hope that their initiative would encourage other old students to do a lot more for the school with just a little effort.
A visit to the school by the Daily Graphic revealed that for the past 52 years, the school had not seen any major rehabilitation work.
This reporter visited the school when old students of the school made a presentation to the school’s sick bay. The presentation was made possible through the benevolence of Maxim Cosmetics and the items included disinfectants, liquid soap and paints.
All the classrooms are without windows while some of the wood used in the construction work are worn out and at the verge of collapse.
Most disheartening is the fact that the classrooms are packed with about 50 pupils being attended to by one teacher, whilst the pupils have no option than to write on broken desks.
The Headmaster of the Basic Department, Mr Frank Armah, said he had written several petitions to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to come to the aid of the school but all to no avail.
He said the compound which was once green was now bare with no grass to check erosion.
Mr Armah added that, any time it rained heavily classes were disrupted because there were no windows in the classrooms to prevent the rains from entering.
He also bemoaned the situation where “trotros” drivers drove through the school compound during prep hours in a bid to avoid traffic on the main road, adding that, their activities affected studies at prep periods.
This, he said, was due to the fact that the school was not walled, therefore creating room for unauthorised people to walk in and out of the school at their own pleasure.
H e added that, the opening of the new Achimota Transport Terminal had given way for thieves to enter the school’s compound and expressed the hope that the school would be walled to ward off the activities of thieves.
Mr Armah was therefore grateful to the old students who had taken it upon themselves to ensure that the Basic Department of the school was upgraded to enhance teaching and learning.
He also called on all old students to “put their hands on deck” to help develop the Achimota Basic School.
Expressing her disappointment at the state of deterioration of the school, an old student, Mrs Kate Williams Baffour, said it was about time old students of the Achimota Basic School came together to help the school regain its former glory.
She expressed the hope that their initiative would encourage other old students to do a lot more for the school with just a little effort.
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