The arrival of 660 Free Senior High School beneficiaries posted to the School has aggravated the crisis.
Accommodation challenges at Klo-Agogo Senior High School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region has compelled students to sleep in turns.
The heartbreaking situation has left school authorities with no option, but to convert the inadequate classrooms into dormitories. To alleviate the situation, authorities went further to turn some uncompleted buildings and a small assembly hall into classrooms, but to no avail.
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The arrival of 660 Free Senior High School beneficiaries posted to the School has aggravated the crisis, requiring urgent attention.
Accra-based Starr Fm reported that, both female and male students are using a classroom block as dormitory, forcing students to sleep in turns as though they are in prison.
Some students who cannot stand the heat in the rooms defy the unfriendly weather condition and mosquitoes to sleep on the veranda.
A 12-unit storey classroom block abandoned by a contractor some years ago is being partitioned to be used as Classrooms.
The crisis stricken school also lacks desks to meet the demands of the student population, forcing at least four students to share a desk.
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Some disheartened students expressed frustration about challenges describing them as demoralizing.
One of them for instance said “I am from Accra and posted here but the situation here is bad not even desk to sit on, classrooms and dormitories overcrowded, we thank the government for the Free S.H.S though but he must do something about our challenges. “
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