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Students of Koforidua Senior High Technical School (SECTECH) have been compelled to dine in the open under harsh weather conditions due to lack of a dining hall.

A small hall, which is used as a dining hall for hundreds of boarding students, also serves as an assembly hall, where the school holds many other activities.

Therefore, during weekends when a number of activities including church services and entertainment programmes are held, food is served in the open for the students, sometimes under inclement weather conditions.

Students were seen eating under the scorching sun on Sunday when the Daily Heritage visited the school.

Some of the students said it has been the status quo over the years even though the practice is bad, but they have no other option than to adjust to the situation.

According to them, the seniors who are reluctant to stand in the open to eat mostly take their meals to their dormitories which have led to the breeding of bed bugs, termites and other insects.

Currently, the old students of SECTEC are constructing a 3000-capacity multipurpose assembly hall for the school. The project which will cost $900,000 is expected to be completed and handed over to the school by 2017.

The Headmaster of the school, Mr Samuel Foli, said the school is facing a lot of infrastructural challenges since its population has increased.

He mentioned lack of a dining hall, teacher accommodation, inadequate boarding facility, among many others, as challenges facing the school.

A source at the Ministry of Education told the DAILY HERITAGE that the ministry will get in touch with “officials in the Eastern Region to address the problem”.