Pupils to demo against defecation in their classrooms

Over 500 angry school children of Droboso Primary School in the Wenchi District of Brong Ahafo region on Tuesday took to the streets to demonstrate over what they say is the continuous use of their classrooms as places of convenience by people living in the area.

The demonstration drew many surprised residents in the town who saw children as young as 3 years carrying placards and chanting war songs “yee yee yen koo….”

Some of the demonstrators told Adom FM's Kofi Adomah that the town folks have for close to 4 years, been using their classrooms as “KVIP” and they believe the act must stop.

“This morning when we came to school, we saw that the town folks have defecated in the classrooms right from KG to class Six and we believe if we don’t demonstrate to show our displeasure, our teachers might stop teaching and it will affect our academic performance. Some even smeared the walls with faeces” a class 3 pupil said.

Confirming the act of these school pupils to Adom News, the acting headmaster Mr. Anthony Boakye Yaidom said he was shocked to see the kids leading the demonstration and he believes the kids were right in their action.

According to Mr. Boakye-Yiadom, the issue of constant defecation in the classrooms has gotten to his attention and the school in collaboration with the chief of the town has tried every possible means to discourage the perpetrators from this practice but nothing has come out of it.

He said the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) planned to raise funds to complete one of the uncompleted buildings which has suffered from this act, but the District Assembly Educational Directorate must come in to help them complete the building.

“The chief always sounds the “gong gong” to advice his people against this act but the situation has grown from bad to worse and so I believe what the kids are doing is the best” Mr. Boakye-Yiadom said.