The Youth of Tinniabe have alleged that, Hon. Ewurah Kandie Mahama, the current district chief executive for Wa East, and the predecessor, Hon. Jotie Moses, were each given a cow in exchange for improving teacher’s quarters in the village, but they both kept their word.
According to Mr. Wisibine Abdul Bashit, the community youth secretary, the community have contributed monies and build a four bed room teachers quarter’s years ago, but it’s now in a sorry state.
Mr. Wisibine also mentioned that all efforts made by the community to remind the DCE’s to fulfil their promise of upgrading the dilapidated teachers quarters have failed.
The youth secretary says the bigger issue that needs urgent attention is teachers commuting to the school due to the dilapidated nature of the existing teacher’s quarters. Most of the teachers he said do not like to stay in the quarters; they prefer to stay in Funsi the district capital.
“As we speak we have about seven teachers posted to the community but only two teachers are staying in the dilapidated quarters, the rest of them are staying in Funsi”.
“We worry that we don’t have a better quarters for the teachers,” he bemoaned and revealed that they had written several letters to authorities for help but to no avail.
He added, with the availability of a befitting teacher’s quarters, staff can stay in the community during the week and return to their homes during the weekend.
“This will help many teachers to accept postings to the community,” he said.
The unit committee chairman for the area, Maripha Salam Salifu also mentioned that, during rainy season, most of the teachers usually don’t come to school. He added that the school has a pupil’s enrolment of about 200, but most of them have dropped out.
“At first we use to record 40 pupils per class but now you can only see 10 or 5 pupils in a class, this is very worrying.”
Yeboah Davis, a teacher in the school described the difficulties he has faced since being assigned to the community to teach.
“I was here for the past three years and this is where we live, it is very scary”.
According to Yeboah, there are leaks in several areas of his roof, making it difficult to stay inside during the rainy season. Adding that the dilapidated apartment is not also connected to the national grid.
