The Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area Daasebre Prof. Emeritus Oti Boateng has been strongly criticized for abandoning Oti Boateng Senior High School, a school he renamed after himself.
Daasebre Oti Boateng is being chastised for not lobbying nor initiating a single project for a school he renamed from Koforidua Secondary School to Oti Boateng SHS for self-aggrandizement.
Currently, over 600 boarding students of Oti Boateng Senior High School in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital are still struggling to get a convenient place to dine after their old wooden structured dining hall was demolished years ago for construction of a multipurpose dining hall project but abandoned at the foundation stage.
The Students dine in turns under trees. Dinning is disrupted whenever it rains.
The onset of the rainy season forecasts a worsened disruptive and miserable dining experience for boarding students in the school.
The students had no dining chairs, therefore, stand to eat.
The risk of birds on the trees flying over their heads and pooing into meals amidst shrieking sounds is discomforting to many of the students hence take away meals served to their dormitories and classrooms as well as the corridors to eat.
The situation is breeding bedbugs, cockroaches, and other insects in the dormitories.
Meals are prepared in a makeshift kitchen constructed on the football field of the school after they were displaced by the construction of the dining hall.
Oti Boateng SHS formerly Koforidua Senior High School (KOSSEC), was established 29 years ago.
The school has been upgraded to a grade “A” status due to its academic feat. However, the school is faced with infrastructural challenges owing to an exponential increase in students’ population due to the implementation of the Free Senior High school policy.
The Old Students Association of the School is unhappy about the situation in the school calling on the government to ensure that the contractor returns to the site to complete the project stating that it should be an emergency due to the pending raining season.
Completion of a storey classroom project by a different contractor has however partly ameliorated the congestion in classrooms but the dining hall remains a major challenge.
Michael Akrofi who spoke on behalf of the old Students also expressed disappointment in Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Council for not lobbying and adding his voice to the plight of the school he renamed after himself.
Source: Mybrutfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
