Yaa Asantewaa Girls SHS students, teachers exposed to danger, demand foot bridge

Yaa Asantewaa Girls Senior High School is battling with what authorities say is incessant vehicular knock-down of students and teachers.

One victim is said to have stayed out of school for almost a year following a life-threatening accident on the busy road near the school.

The students want a footbridge across to the school’s main gate on the Kumasi-Sunyani Road. 

School Prefect, Di-Bless Owusu, raised alarm at the 58th Anniversary, Speech and Prize-giving Day in Kumasi.

The Tanoso-Abuakwa stretch of the highway is noted for its perennial heavy vehicular congestion.

Impatient and lawless motorists have the tendency of overtaking wrongly, mostly using the shoulder of the road.

This has always resulted in accidents with attendant casualties.

School Prefect, Di-Bless Owusu

Yaa Asantewaa Girls SHS, with high day student population, wants the government to intervene.

They are scared plans to develop the road into a dual carriage, will worsen the situation.

Headmistress, Asuande Eshun-Famiyeh, appealed for the renovation of deteriorating school structures, among other concerns.

Ashanti Regional Deputy Minister, Elizabeth Agyemang, emphasized science and home economics education to reduce domestic accidents.

She urged parents to create a congenial atmosphere for females to climb the education ladder.

National President of the old students Association, Diana Adu-Dankwa admonished students to desist from sexual immorality like lesbianism and boy-girl relationship and focus on academic work.

She encouraged them to take advantage of the fast-moving world to achieve their ambitions.

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