{"id":393065,"date":"2017-05-29T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/headmaster-closes-down-dilapidated-school-for-fear-of-collapse\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:57:32","slug":"headmaster-closes-down-dilapidated-school-for-fear-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/headmaster-closes-down-dilapidated-school-for-fear-of-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Headmaster closes down dilapidated school for fear of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>About 200 pupils of Gomoa Techiman D\/A Primary are likely to be sent\u00a0home in two weeks&#8217; time if nothing is done about structure in which they take lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The head teacher of the school says the\u00a0building is clearly a disaster waiting to happen and has therefore\u00a0given authorities two weeks to do something or he will be forced to close the school down.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0John Kweku Amoh,\u00a0government&#8217;s\u00a0help is urgently\u00a0needed if a disaster is to be averted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2881652553255_313368873049.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dilapidated school building was constructed during the independence era and currently accommodates close to 200 pupils with the lower class of Kindergarten 1-2 being the worst affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building is in a terrible condition and can cave in at any time especially classes 1 and 3 are in a terrible condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7376914691852_6116041849263.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:309px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it rains we get scared and the children cannot learn. When the weather becomes cloudy, I either have to close the pupils in KG or let them join those in class one because I am afraid of what will happen,\u201d the head teacher said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he has been innovative in managing to teach in such a structure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2640485053467_6645475169385.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said several appeals have been made to the Ghana Education Service (GES) at the district level as well as the district assembly but all have fallen on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amoh told Joy News\u2019 Central regional correspondent Richard Kwadwo Nyarko\u00a0that together with some chiefs and elders of the town, the school\u2019s management committee travelled to Apam to meet with the District Chief Executive (DCE) who promised them a new school block. But that has not been done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3044600602704_8381953188062.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The head teacher fears the worst might happen as the building hangs by a thread.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:\u00a02 more children die in school building collapse; death toll 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5099080757341_3162975841822.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In January this year,\u00a0six pupils of the Breman Jamera Methodist School in the Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region were\u00a0killed after their school building collapsed on them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9497116534091_5484978352518.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The about 70 pupils, aged four and five were about to settle for studies when the building collapsed. Many others who sustained varying\u00a0degrees of injury\u00a0are receiving treatment at the Breman Asikuma Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2096574414107_7204081583147.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to school authorities, the block in question had developed cracks and several appeals for the defects to be fixed were not adhered to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9655586505981_8729288648813.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:381px; width:550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the teachers told Joy News the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) had been informed about the development but nothing was done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 pupils of Gomoa Techiman D\/A Primary are likely to be sent\u00a0home in two weeks&#8217; time if nothing is done about structure in which they take lessons. 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