The infrastructure deficit is a major challenge associated with the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme.
This situation has compelled some school authorities across the country to convert dining halls and in some cases classroom blocks into dormitories, to accommodate beneficiaries of the programme.
Tamale Vitting Senior High School in the Northern Region is one of such schools where students are compelled to sleep under trees, on the veranda of the school library and in classrooms.
It is one of the most densely populated second cycle institutions in the Tamale Metropolis, located off the Tamale-Yendi Highway.
With a population of 1,400 boarding students, the school has only five overcrowded and dilapidated dormitories, comprising four for male and one for female students.
The overcrowded boys’ dormitories namely Dakpema, Vitting, Nkrumah and Gbewaa, have cracked walls, leaked roofing and broken windows.
The implementation of the free SHS has worsened the situation compelling final year students to sacrifice their beds for some beneficiaries of the programme.
Those sleeping in the open are exposed to mosquitoes, and other reptiles coupled with the dusty and moist harmattan weather.
The female students share beds, while some sleep on the bare floor.
Some of the frustrated students in a Citi News interview, cried for help, saying, “Our school lacks dormitories, classroom blocks, entertainment and dining halls. Government should help us.”
“Our dining hall is meant for eating, but some of us are sleeping there and even in the school Mosque. Our dining hall, we go there in batches to eat.”
“We are appealing to the highest authorities to come to our aid, we are suffering.”
The school shares boundaries with Ghana Senior High School (Ghanasco), and the Dabokpa Secondary/Technical school.
The dire situation at Tamale Vitting Senior High School, comes to the fore few days after Citi Newsreported about how students of Three Town Senior High School in Denu, Volta Region, now resort to makeshift classrooms under trees, to host students for lessons due to the lack suitable classroom facilities.
Source: citifmonline.com
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All of a sudden every problem in senior high school is as a result of free shs. Even if the headmaster can not impregnate his wife it is bcos of free shs. Stuppidd people. John Mahama and his NDC apologist claim they have built massive school infrastructure that has never happened in this country before. So where is that infrastructure that students are sleeping on the floor. Before the free SHS was implemented did any of you find out the situation of Tamale high school? This attempt by the NDC and its rented press to create a bad picture about free shs will not wash because it is better to sleep under trees in a free education than not to go to school at all. So let the fuuuuuulish NDC people insulting Nana Addo bow down thier heads in shame.
DISGUSTING FREE SHS!! WE WILL MARK NANA'S EXAM PAPERS IN 2020!!ALL HE THINKS ABOUT IS CHOPPING PRESIDENT JUST BCOS HIS PAPA WAS A CEREMONIAL PREZ!!
Yes disgusting, but Headmaster should be held responsible. Why did he admit this number?
Speak against the problem like nana did as s3nsible commetator than insulting the president who has made way for ur family to get people who wil graduate from SHS for the first time
oh my God this is disgusting,, our president should has taken his time implementing this free shs thing,, how would they learn under this condition.....former president started with building more schools he should have continued with that, i will rather let my child stay at home and do his private studies
When you elect people who chose political expediency over proper planning, sound reasoning and common sense, this is what happened. This short dwarf, his lying tongue VP and 110 ministers are ruining our educational system and we must speak up. Which of their kids will they allow to school under such conditions????
is this really true? Prison or school? Is any minister, DCE, MP or any leader in Ghana has his/her child in the school?