Apart from having to deal with issues of theft, the Headteacher of Zanlerigu Junior High School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region has decried the decision of some unscrupulous persons to make classrooms at the Zanlerigu cluster of schools their place of convenience.
He explained that pupils and teachers are sometimes greeted by some unpleasant spectacle where fecal matter is left in classrooms.
The situation according to the headteacher has persisted for a long and has often left them surprised over why some individuals will choose to make classrooms meant for the education of children their place of convenience.
In an interview with Dreamz News on the sidelines of the presentation of educational items to the Zanlerigu cluster of schools by Nong-Zoya Foundation Ghana, Mr. Assibi noted these persons sometimes defecate in classrooms, on the veranda and in Veronica buckets meant for hand hygiene.
Open defecation has remained a big challenge for residents of the Upper East Region and the Nabdam District.
Mr. Assibi detailed that the development is demotivating and worrying.
“So many challenges are bedeviling the three schools and one has to do with the rampant defecation in classrooms. They will come in and defecate in the classroom we don’t know what they want from us usually on weekend and when we close sometimes in the evening but they come and do it the following day we come to school and we’ll see that they have you have defecated in the classrooms.
Sometimes they even climb on the table and defecate on it. Sometimes they will take the Veronica Buckets that we keep in the school for improved handwashing and defecate inside.
That is what is happening and this has been going on for a long time. I was at the primary it was happening and then reposted me to the JHS, and it is still happening.
Stealing the same thing. They broke into our classroom that is basic seven and stole four fans and four regulators and the main switch,” he cried out for help.
