The over 3,000 abandoned dual desks meant for distribution to basic schools in the Ga West and South municipal assemblies, have now been distributed to the beneficiary schools.

The Ga South Assembly hired 16 cargo trucks on Monday to collect and distribute their half of the consignment that had been left in the open for months.

The assembly was to have supervised and borne the cost of transporting the furniture to the various schools, but they were left in the open for over four months for unexplained reasons.

On Monday, when some of the desks were being loaded onto the trucks, it was realised that 50 of them had been eaten by termites.

The Times news team followed some of the distribution trucks to the beneficiary schools on Wednesday, and as the schools and their heads were on holidays, the desks were received by the assembly members on behalf of the schools.

Mr Daniel Budu Asiedu, Ga West Municipal Director of Education, later gave the names of some beneficiary areas as Ashalaja, Weija, Bortianor, Obom and Ngleshie Amanfro.

The others are Nsoubri, Pokuase, Gbawe, Amasaman, Kofi Kwei, Ofankor and Medie.The rest are Kutunse and Amarmorley.

Most of the assembly members interviewed expressed their appreciation for the furniture but also said that the desks should have come earlier to relieve the school children because three or four of them share a desk meant for two.

Vera Boamah, assemblywoman for Bortianor, who received 115 dual desks for five schools in her area, complained that about three more schools in the Kokrobite area did not benefit from the allocation to supplement the few that they have.

The assemblyman for Ngleshie Amanfro, Joseph Nyarni, who took delivery of 225 dual desks on behalf of nine schools, complained about the short notice from the assembly, adding that the school children are on vacation and the headmasters were resident outside the area and so could, therefore, not receive their allocations.

The Times reported on August 14 that 3,000 dual desks, which formed part of about 5,000 desks provided by the government at the cost of GH¢80,000 had been abandoned and left in the open to rot.



Source: Times