Volta Region: Residents Express Frustration Over Delayed E-Block School Construction
Community Voices Discontent Over Prolonged Delay in E-Block School Project
Residents of Shia, a border community near Ho in the Volta Region, are grappling with the disappointment of a broken promise regarding the construction of an E-Block community day school. Although a feasibility study was completed and land was allocated, the site remains undeveloped.
The Shia community, through the efforts of their chief and the Shia Development Committee, successfully built a community senior high technical school. However, the school lacks essential infrastructure, prompting a proposal to establish one of the E-Block schools in the area.
In 2016, the Member of Parliament for Ho Central, Benjamin Kpodo, and a team led by former Deputy Minister of Education Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa inspected the allocated 40-acre land with a site plan for the proposed school. Despite this, no progress has been made in the past seven years.
Since its establishment in 1998, the Shia Senior High Technical School has faced severe infrastructural challenges. Students currently study under pavilions provided by the community, and an old middle school block has been repurposed as a boys’ dormitory, while girls commute daily as there is no dormitory for them.
An old administration block serves as classrooms, and an improvised shed is used as a kitchen. The lack of proper facilities has negatively impacted the school’s development, resulting in low enrolment. Many students either refuse postings to the school or leave soon after, exacerbating the pressure on the school’s authorities.
An administration block provided by a local donor is situated outside the school campus, and some science laboratory structures provided are below standard. Assistant Headmaster Sebastian Kofi Ayitey noted that a 12-unit classroom block, begun in 2018, is about 90 percent complete at the site designated for the E-Block community school.
The anticipated E-Block construction would have alleviated the infrastructure shortage at the school, but its absence continues to frustrate the Shia community.
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