Oti Boateng SHS Students displaced after rains rip off girls’ dormitory

The downpour on March 21 ripped off the roof of the Oti Boateng Senior High School’s girl’s dormitory at Koforidua in the Eastern region, displacing over 200 students and soaking up learning materials.

Information gathered indicates that when the students were going to take their supper, they realized that a heavy storm followed the rains, sending roofing sheets flying all over the campus and even to the roads and nearby houses.

Upon further investigations, the students realized that the roofs of the girl’s dormitory had come off, resulting in the total flooding of the dormitory, thereby destroying books, other learning materials, beds, and other personal valuables of the students.

According to the headmaster of the school, Mr. Francis Tekpetey, the school authorities arranged for the displaced students to take refuge and sleep in the classrooms and computer laboratory.

Information available to The Ghana Report indicates that the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has reported to the campus to assess the impact of damage caused by the rains.

The old students of the school have also extended help to the displaced students, calling for government intervention to see to the immediate re-roofing of the dormitory to enable a comfortable learning environment for the students.

In the same vein, on March 2, 2024, a downpour that lasted almost two hours ripped off the roof of about seven classrooms and soaked learning materials in the Ejisu Senior High and Technical School in the Ashanti Region.

The Ejisu Krapa Basic School and Ejisu Experimental Basic Schools were also affected.

The Ejisu Municipal Chief Executive, Samuel Oduro Frimpong, who has been assessing the impact of damage caused by the rains, said the school will not be closed down to academics.

“I thought of breaking the student to go home for their parents to see them but we also have to consider the academic calendar as well. So we will meet the head and members of the teaching staff of the school to discuss the issue in the interest of teachers and students as well. We don’t want them to go home and return to do what they were supposed to learn this semester in the next semester before we break on Tuesday. We want to assure parents that we are also parents so we make sure they get a better place to sleep before we end the term.”