Some residents of Wodome, a community in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta region, have languished over the poor state of their road and the Wodome basic school, which is adversely affecting effective academic work.
They complained that the school has not been renovated since its construction, leaving the structures dilapidated as the classroom doors and windows are broken while the walls are tainted.
Some of the residents speaking to Japhet Festus Gbede, a deputy communication officer aspirant during his campaign tour in the area, indicated that the inadequate classrooms in the school had compelled the management of the school to combine some classes.
Mr. James Dogbey, a stakeholder in the area, appealed to the government to take the necessary steps to ensure infrastructure improvement in the school to improve academic work.
Due to the accommodation challenges in the community, the teachers are not provided with housing and must live in Akatsi. This prevents the teachers from attending classes whenever there is a major downpour because of the poor condition of the road,” he added.
Mr. Seth Shitor also noted that the school had no befitting facility to accommodate the kindergarten children since the existing kindergarten facility, which was provided some years back, had outlived its usefulness.
He explained that a number of teachers refused to accept postings to the school due to the deplorable nature of the facility and added that some pupils from the school after each vacation refused to attend classes on the grounds that the facility was not ideal for learning.
Speaking to Hon. Daniel Amuzu Kale, the Assemblymember for the area, he acknowledged the importance of education to the development of the community and the nation at large, but that the current infrastructure in the Wodome basic school discourages education in the area.
He continued by saying that residents’ lives are made intolerable by the terrible road connecting Wodome and Akatsi to Wute Road.
He stated that the road has been ignored for years, leaving the residents of those primarily agricultural areas hopeless.
He added that the arrival of the rain has made things worse and has made driving challenging.
The people declared that it had been challenging for them to transport farm produce to the market centers due to the poor road system.
Passengers and residents calculated their economic and social losses as drivers griped about the continuous breakdowns of their cars caused by the poor roads.
He, therefore, appealed to the government and benevolent individuals and organisations to come to their aid by providing the community with a befitting school infrastructure.
