The water and electricity crises in Koforidua Secondary Technical School are fueling tension among the student body.
Two mechanized boreholes that were serving the school have been damaged for almost a month now.
Students roam in houses of nearby communities such as Atekyem, the Police training school, and Adweso SSNIT to fetch water during the day and evening to search for water.
The situation has forced some of the students not to bath frequently.
Others take advantage to run away from school to town.
Management says the school does not have funds to fix the broken boreholes hence have appealed to old students who have donated poly large polytanks to the school while repair works are ongoing.
A dysfunctional borehole is also being converted into a well to mitigate the situation.
Meanwhile many classroom blocks in the school do not have power due to prepaid shortages affecting the students, particularly final years who are supposed to learn to write the exams.
Sources say the government has not paid grants for utility for the academic year.
The headmaster, some teachers, and students are sometimes compelled by the exigencies of the situation to use their pocket monies to buy prepaid to get light to learn.
The PTA Chairman also intervenes intermittently to buy prepaid.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
