Nkwanta South Kpapu M/A Basic school calls for help. The Teachers, pupils, chief and elders of Kpapu, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region have raised alarm over the lack of infrastructure and teachers in the school .
Mr. Maprumbe Simon, Assembly member for Nyambong West electoral area in the Nkwanta South Municipality, said to Beyond news in an interview during a visit to the school that ,the school started by the parents in the community where they built a mud structure (“Atakpame”) for the children to sit in and learn.
He continue that, the parents themselves who were paying the volunteered teachers who were then teaching these children but until 2017 when the government took over the school from the community and till date only two teachers have been sent to teach from nursery to primary six and the structure which was built by the community is the same structure they are still using.
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“Every child hopes to get quality education and fit well into the society, but for my people here, is a mirage because as you can see for yourself two classes occupy one class room and there are no desks for them to seat because four children seats on one desk and all the desks in the school is not up to thirty, no toilet facility or enough teachers to teach them” said the assembly man.
The Hon Assembly member however called the Nkwanta South Municipal Assembly, Ghana Education Service,NGOs, philanthropists and individual to come to their aid by raising the school structure to a standard that will encourage these children to see the need for them to go to school.
Mr .Thasun Oliver headteacher of the school also pleaded with GES to bring more teachers to the school in order for them to improve academic performances of the pupils since two teachers can not teach a whole there is the need for them get more teachers.
He also called on the government’s school feeding program to continue in the school since that was the only alternative that motivates pupils to come to school in their numbers.
By Patience Tawiah
