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The Sekondi School for the Deaf owes food suppliers an amount of GH₵50,000, Food suppliers are threatening to cause the arrest of the head-teachers of the for non-payment of food supplies. The situation has resulted from government�s inability to release funds for the upkeep of the children as well as meet other administrative expenses at the two schools, leaving the schools with a population of 326 pupils and students to survive on the benevolence of corporate and religious bodies as well as individual. Aside from that, facilities available for teaching and non-teaching staff are in a deplorable state making the living conditions unattractive and unhealthy. According to the headmaster Mr. Kofi Nti Frimpong he sleeps on a student mattress placed on a bunk bed in the porch of the Audio Assessment Centre due to lack of accommodation. Mr Frimpong said when school reopened this term, they had to delay admitting in-mates because there were no funds to run the school, saying �the term�s feeding and administration grants have not been paid, more so, only 50 per cent of the money for the term�s grant was paid last year and this term nothing and we keep feeding the children on credit.� Adom TV toured the school to access facilities for the head-teacher, girls� dormitory and staff accommodation, which had been under construction since 1992 were yet to be completed.