Northern Volta Schools face imminent closure

Five Senior High Schools in northern Volta may be forced to close down if feeding grants are not released to them.

Heads of Nkwanta Senior High, Worawora, Buaman, Kadjebi Asato and the Krachi Senior High Schools say the Ghana Education Service has turned deaf ears to their incessant appeals for the grants to be made available.

They fear the schools can no longer 'hang on' if the grants are not made available.

The Scholarship Secretariat for instance is said to be indebted to the Kadjebi Senior High School to the tune of GH¢ 130,000 over the last two terms.

Headmasters of the affected schools have therefore resorted to their various Parents Teacher Associations, to provide feeding for the children.

Headmaster for Kadjebi Asato Senior High School, Mussa Yamba Issahaku disclosed to ASEMPA NEWS in an interview at the launch of the School's 50th Anniversary Celebrations that, students seeking refuge from the conflicts in the North have resettled in Northern Volta to continue their education which has aggravated the situation.

This Mr. Yamba Issahaka noted, has put pressure on the school to look for other means to feed the students while they wait for the Scholarship Secretariat to honour its promise.

According to him, had it not been the intervention by the PTA which has borrowed the School an amount of GH¢ 28,000 the students would have been sent home by now.

Jerry tsatro Mordy