Headmaster of Tikrom Municipal Assembly Junior High School (JHS) in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Mr Agyeman Yeboah, has threatened to close down.
The threat by the headmaster follows the worrying development where classrooms of the school are being used as places of convenience by some residents of the town.
According to him, due to the lack of adequate public toilet facilities in the area, some of the residents have resorted to the use of uncompleted school blocks as places of conveniences.
Speaking in an interview with Today via telephone yesterday, Mr Yeboah lamented that the situation has compelled some of the teachers to temporally suspend teaching.
The action by some of the teachers,Today gathered, was due to the stench that emanates from the classrooms.
“Our classrooms are uncompleted, have no windows and doors so open defecation has become the order of the day. Anytime we come in the morning, we will find human excreta all over the place,” he bemoaned.
He added that “the teachers who are fed up with the development have refused to use the classrooms as teaching place.”
For her part, Assembly member of the area, Mrs Stella Oduro, lamented about the situation, and assured that she would communicate the problem to the assembly.
In this regard, she urged government and individuals to come to their aid.
“This is really affecting teaching and learning activities, we are going to have a meeting with the community members on this issue, and if it continues after the meeting then we will have no other option than to close down the school,” she warned.
Meanwhile, a report titled: ‘Out of Order’ by WaterAid, an international non-governmental organisation, on its 2017 state of the world’s toilets, has revealed that Ghana is among the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest percentage of its population without decent toilets.
The report indicates that 85.7% of the Ghanaian population is without decent toilets.
This equals about 23 million people who suffer the fear and indignity of relieving themselves in the open or in unsafe or unhygienic toilets.
According to the report, the lack of decent toilets around the world prevents women and girls from fulfilling their potential.
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