SUSEC cries over inadequate accommodation facilities

The Sunyani Senior High School (SUSEC) has recently been under severe pressure over inadequate boarding facilities to accommodate students for the first year. Due to these inadequate boarding facilities, some of the first year students have been compelled to sleep on the floor.

This came to light when the Girls’ Prefect of the school, Ms. Evelyn Nketiah Annor, had the opportunity to speak during the recent Brong-Ahafo version of the Government for the People Forum (G4P forum) at the Sunyani Polytechnic Auditorium.

According to Evelyn Nketiah, the school needed adequate boarding facilities to help curb the situation whereby students are compelled to sleep on the floor, asking that what were the measures put in place to ensure that the students have comfortable sleeping places for their studies.

The Chronicle further investigations revealed that the available space for the first year students for Girls were only 75 students but now due to pressure from parents who want their wards to be at the boarding house, the number has exceeded the required thereby compelling students to sleep on the floor.

School Authorities intended to admit students who may come from outside Sunyani at the Boarding House, but the pressure from Traditional Authorities, politicians, religious leaders, old students and other stakeholders in the guise of protocol has induced the authority to admit students from within Sunyani and without boarding status at the boarding house.

Though the School’s authority has lamented all the challenges to the parents, but to no avail as they all want the children to be at the boarding house, however despite the effort by government to provide enough accommodation facilities, the two projects ongoing have come to a standstill due to what the contractors claim lack of funds.

The Girls’ Prefect Evelyn Nketiah Annor appealed to government to release funds to the contractors working on the projects for speedy completion, as well as the furnishing of the completed Assembly hall Complex to accommodate the over increasing population of the students.

It was noted that there have been numerous ongoing projects abandoned in the school which when completed will help solve the problem of students sleeping on the floors, among such projects are the boys’ dormitory projects and the masters’ bungalow.

The projects are near completion with only the doors, louvers and beds left to be fixed, whilst the same thing applies to that of the girls, as their dormitories have been abandoned due to lack of funds.

The Girls’ Prefect, Evelyn Nketiah, appealed to government and stakeholders to come to the aid of the school to serve the purpose of providing quality teaching and learning.