Teenage pregnancy and drug abuse is fast gaining grounds in second cycle institutions across the country following the hasty implementation of president Akufo Addo’s free Senior High School policy, The aL haJJ’s investigations have uncovered.
Disturbing reports across the country reaching this paper indicate that some free SHS beneficiaries leaving in rented apartments due to lack of space in most boarding houses have now become bed warmers of hungry sex-seeking men whilst the boys have taken to drug abuse.
“The girls have started getting pregnant and the boys too have started smoking wee,” a house master in one of the Senior High Schools in the Brong Ahafo region told this paper on strict condition of anonymity.
Narrating the dire conditions in second cycle institutions in the country, a headmaster of one of the schools in the Northern region also told the al-hajj; “the problem here is that the number of students GES tasked us to admit into the boarding houses was way beyond our capacity. We had no choice than to admit them and when the space at the boarding houses was full, we asked the rest to find alternative accommodation in town.”
The headmaster continued “this student through their parent’s teamed up to rent apartments in town. And that is where they leave and come to school every day. I have personally visited some of them and it is sad that in some of the rooms, you’ll see as many as 10 girls or boys in one room. This problem is across the country.
Some of the schools can admit only 200 students into the boarding house but they were asked to admit 400, others that can take 300 have been asked to admit 700. Where are they going to find space for the rest? Meanwhile some of these students are coming from far places”.
Source: Al-hajj
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Are students living or "leaving" in rented apartments? Whoever wrote this story needs free SHS.
This is total bullshit. What ***barred word*** is this. I know ow I keep telling to be wary of their words in public, but this is bullshit. So a headmaster has a problem, he tells a reporter about it but don't want to be identified or his school identified. And the very sensible reporter also wrote a very sensible news article on it. What sort of foolishness is this? I'm so disappointed in peacefmonline.com and whoever this alhajj is. Very sad.
Al-Hajj! True To Type
Alhajj, so do you spend money to buy raw materials for the production of your newspapers ? Even if you get them for free, pls be a bit intelligent and sensible. What's this trash that you have published? You are ***barred word***...
I CAN'T BELIEVE A REAL HUMAN BORN BY REASONABLE GHANAIAN WOULD WRITE SUCH A NEGATIVE STORY ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE. IS ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY ENJOYING THE THE FREE SHS? I LEARNED YOUR WICKEDNESS AND SELFISHNES TOOK YOU TO OPPOSITION. CONTINUE YOUR PROPAGANDA. GOD WILL PUNISH YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE GENERATION.
This is ***barred word***. Why won't the headmaster reveal the name of the school for any philanthropy or government to resolve. You have a problem and you say strict anonymity. Massa did you find out if it's true.
hahahahahahahaha i laugh enter NANA;S OFFICE,eeeeiiii NDC' WHAT DOES THE FREE SHS HAS TO DO WITH TEENAGE PREGNANCY, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT PLEASE GET BETTER REPORTS FOR WE TO READ WAI, MTCHEEWWWW
Gibberish! where is the correlation between free education and teenage "deviant" behaviors in school. get a life!
As soon as i saw the headline, I was looking for the source. I did not even waste my time to read this nyaa
And this people were ruling Ghana. God has really saved Ghana from these bunch of Idi0ts who do not analyze anything before they talk. One month or two months pregnancy and their stomachs are protruding like this. All your propaganda machinery has failed