Nkwankwanta SHS Would Be Reopened For Academic Works ...After Rainstorm Destruction Of Part Of The School Classroom Blocks
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr Francis Kwadwo Oppong, has disclosed the full academic works of the Nkwankwan Senior High School (SHS) would start on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
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The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr Francis Kwadwo Oppong, has disclosed the full academic works of the Nkwankwan Senior High School (SHS) would start on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
According to the DCE, although the Thursday rainstorm disaster has destroyed part of the classroom blocks of the school resulting in the casualties of fifteen students of the school, the headmaster assured them that they would go back to the school on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, to start teaching and learning activities.
For the short term measures, the DCE stated that the Bono Regional Minister with the consultation with the Bono Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has advised the authorities of the Nkwankwan JHS that they would arrange classes for the students whose classroom blocks were affected by rainstorm under the tree inside the school compound to undergo its normal teaching and learning activities.
For the teaching and learning arrangements in the Nkwankwanta SHS, the DCE noted that the headmaster told them that they had planned to arrange classes for the students whose classroom blocks were affected to learn in the limited classrooms of the school.
He assured that they would speed up the processes to reroof the affected classroom blocks for the two public schools to safeguard the situation.
He indicated that the reroofing for the Nkwankwan SHS affected classroom block would take a little bit of time because 'that particular classroom block is a very big one which comprises two classrooms, liberal, staff common rooms, kitchen, dormitory among other education infrastructural facilities."
Mr. Oppong stated that the government through the Assembly has put in place human-centered measures to ensure that the properties and lives of the people in Nkwankwanta who were affected in the Thursday rainstorm were protected.
He mentioned that the officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) are still accessing and taking the inventories of the properties which were affected and that after they would find satisfactory solutions to help the victims.
He said the Bono Regional Minister and her entourage went round to the houses of the victims to console the victims including the students and the authorities of both Junior and Senior High Schools of Nkwankwanta.
He noted that the minister led by Dormaa West Municipal Director of NADMO and some of the senior staff of the Assembly including him conducted the search of the areas of the disaster to first-hand information about the issue and see the next line of action to be taken to support the victims.
The DCE pointed out that the Bono Regional Minister assured his readiness to collaborate with the officials of DADMO, Dormaa West Municipal Assembly to come to the aid of the victims.
"We have taken inventory of some of the properties which have been destroyed through the disaster. This is because the destructions caused by the disaster are pretty and that we could not finish taking the records of them, so we would be going back to the community on Tuesday, March 8, 2021, to have accessed all and record them accordingly."
He stated that some of the victims whose houses were destroyed were relocated to stay with their relatives within the town.
Additionally, he pointed out that the student's dormitory was also affected, indicating that some of the students from the Nkwankwanta SHS who are residents of the area were also asked to go and stay with their families.
He indicated that other boarding students who are from outside of the town were managed by way of accommodating them with another limited dormitory.
Mr. Oppong disclosed these in an interview with Soireenews.com to give detailed updates about the current living conditions of the people in Nkwankwanta after the rainstorm has destroyed their properties and injured some residents including students of the Nkwankwan SHS on Thursday, March 3, 2022.
The DCE's explanations to the issue comes to light after the Bono Regional Minister, Mrs. Justina Owusu-Banahene (aka Awo) together with the Bono Regional Acting Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mrs. Ivy Owusu Asantewa joined him (Mr. Opong), District National Disaster Management Organisation officials and the Dormaa West District Education Director to visit some affected places in Nkrankwanta.
On Thursday, March 3, 2022, a heavy downpour visited Nkrankwanta township causing roofs rip-off at Nkrankwanta Senior High School, Nkrankwanta D/A JHS, and individual houses in the township.
The incident caused about 25 students being fainted and a female teacher was rushed to the Dormaa West District Hospital.
At the Nkrankwanta Senior High School, the Ministress, Mrs. Justina solidarized with the students and the staff and assured them of government swift intervention in ensuring the reroof of the affected classroom blocks for effective teaching and learning in the school.
The Minister with the DCE and the education director visited the Nkrankwanta District hospital where the affected students were rushed to. They also visited the Nkrankwanta D/A JHS.
They encouraged the students not to be scared by the incident but to take their education seriously as the government was ready to renovate the school.
The team also visited some affected individual houses to see how the residents were faring. The residents requested that government come to their aid as life was unbearable.
Lastly, they visited Osikani FM 99.7 MHz in Nkrankwanta where the station's mast had been destroyed by the rainstorm.
