Ngabawe (WR), May 28, GNA – The Ngabawe District Assembly Primary School, in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region is in dire need of educational facilities.
The Ngabawe D/A Primary School constructed with mud and bamboo has not seen any improvement since.
The school lacked mono and dual desks, compelling pupils to sit on the floor to study.
Ngabawe community, which is a predominantly cocoa growing area has not been connected to the national electricity grid as well.
Due to the bad state of the school, teachers continuously refused postings to teach in the school due to the poor nature and the telecommunications network problems.
The Chief of Ngabawe community, Nana Atiemo told the Ghana News Agency that the situation was affecting the academic performance of the school.
He was worried that successive governments seemed to have neglected them.
“Ngabawe is a cocoa farming community and since the establishment of the Primary School here, no government has provided us with a decent classroom block, we the community members had to use bamboo and mud to construct this Primary School.
“We have been complaining about the structure and it seems we are not part of Ghana, meanwhile we produce a lot of cocoa and other cash crops for the country”, he lamented.
Nana Atiemo who is also the Aiyinasi District Cocoa Chief Farmer took the opportunity and appealed to the government and other companies to urgently come to their aid by constructing a new classroom block for the community.
“We are appealing to the government to come and support us, we are also appealing to Ghana Gas Company and Adamus Mining Company to come and build a new classroom block for us because our children are suffering, we beg them”, he pleaded.
On the bad road network and other social amenities, Nana Atiemo tasked the government and other telecommunications companies to help the community.
“Our plight are many as a community, we don’t have network to make calls, our road network to this place is also very terrible”
GNA