John Dramani Mahama, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer candidate, has placed the blame for the recent controversy over a restroom dormitory at the Ghana Senior High School in Tamale on the government.
He claimed that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s neglected to invest in the infrastructure of senior high schools, which led to the current predicament.
Speaking to attendees at Nkwanta in the Oti Region, John Mahama claims that some schools have difficulties with feeding their students.
“The students are unable to get a decent place to sleep when they go to school because the government has refused to continue most of the infrastructure including dormitories which were under construction before we left office. This situation poses a challenge to the educational sector. Most of the students also go hungry while in school. Headmasters are prevented from intervening. We will change the situation in our next government,” Mr. Mahama said.
A viral video claimed that some students at the Ghana Senior High School in Tamale were sleeping in the toilet cubicles.
The headmaster and senior housemaster of the school were detained by the Ghana Education Service (GES) so that inquiries could start.
Douglas Yakubu, the GHANASCO headmaster who is in hot water, claimed that the story was staged to damage the school’s reputation, but Prince Kwame Tamakloe, the journalist who broke the story, is adamant that it was not.
Relatively, reacting to the viral video and GES’ decision to interdict the headmaster of GHANASCO, Akwasi Addai Odike said the headmaster of the school has erred the GES and the nation.
He alleged that the headmaster knowing full well that the school can accommodate 1790 students, but gave out 1467 so that he could sell the remaining spaces and pocket the money.
He quizzed where the 300 excesses students going to sleep.
According to Odike, the GES must arrest GHANASCO headmaster for allowing students to sleep in converted toilet cubicles into accommodation.
