NAFANA SHS IN DIRE NEED (PAGE 3, AUGUST 25, 2010)

The Nafana Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS) at Sampa, the capital of the Jaman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region, is in dire need of dining and assembly halls, as well as other infrastructural facilities.
Due to the lack of an assembly hall, all meetings at the school are held under the shade of trees on the school compound whenever the need arises.
The situation came to light when the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye –Marfo, visited the institution to interact with both students and the school authorities during his working visit to the district.
Mr Kofi Wiredu Sasah, the Headmaster of the school, said the situation had been so for a long time and that several appeals made to the appropriate educational authorities and other stakeholders had not yielded any fruitful results.
He indicated that one block at the school served as both a classroom and a dining hall and there were no dormitory blocks for both female and male students, no science laboratory and many other facilities to promote quality teaching and learning.
He, therefore, made a passionate appeal to the Regional Minister to ensure that the school was provided with the needed facilities.
Mr Nyamekye-Marfo gave the assurance that he would ensure that the needs of the school, especially the construction of a classroom block for those caught up with the four-year SHS programme, were provided.
He emphasised that the government was committed to ensuring that, all schools in the country would be provided with the necessary facilities to boost education, a necessary tool for development.
The Regional Minister noted that the provision of logistics and other infrastructural facilities, as well as the provision of incentive to teachers, was the only way to enhance teaching and learning.
Mr Nyamekye-Marfo appealed to the teachers to give off their best in spite of the challenges they faced, saying: “If you fail to deliver, the children will not succeed and that can spell their doom.”
He also advised the students to learn very hard instead of engaging in social vices such as sodomy, lesbianism, alcoholism and the use of hard drugs, adding: “Your parents are struggling to make you feel better in your future lives.”