The Accra Metro Director of Education has dismissed assertions he is ‘sleeping on the job’ whilst student and teachers of Fadama cluster of schools in Accra face wanton and life threatening challenges posed by residents in the area.

“Why are they saying the director or authorities have not come? If there is a problem in the school, I investigate and based on the report I receive, I write a letter to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and they take it up.

“If it is about light, infrastructure and other things, that is the responsibility of GES. We implement policies. If it capital intensive, like infrastructure that is not the duty of the GES it goes to AMA,” an obviously outraged James Nii Okaija Dinsay told Joy News’ Stephen Anti on Tuesday.

His reaction follows a heart wrecking report filed by Joy News reporter Prince Fortune Effanga on the deplorable condition students and teachers go through as a result of the residents’ actions.

School hours have been cut by three and half hours because residents demand the use of the school park for training by the footballers.

According to Effanga, two pregnant women had a miscarriage in the recent past following accidental contacts with the football.

As if that was not enough, toilet facilities, a bonafide property of the school has been taken over by the residents, and the students have to pay before entering their own property.

One of the teachers in an interview said a student once picked a condom on the school park, blew it and burst into tears after his teacher collected the ‘balloon’ from him, an indication the park is being used as an extension of bedrooms for ‘homeless’ couples.

The head of the institution say several complaints for walls to be built around the school, and lights provided have gone unheeded by the education directorate.

This Mr. Dinsay say does not fall under his purview.

He advised heads of the institution to liaise with the Assembly members of the area and other stakeholders to find a lasting solution.

Story by Nathan Gadugah

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