The Assemblyman for the Nayorigo community, Lawrence Ake-emah-Kapoe, has appealed to the Government and Non-Governmental organizations to assist the Nayorigo Primary School in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region with furniture.

The Assemblyman, speaking with the Ghana News Agency at the school said the pupils sat on the bare floor while academic work was ongoing, and those who needed to write laid on their stomachs to do so.

He added that except primary four which had less than 10 dual desks, none of the remaining five classes had even a single dual desk.

"The school has been battling with furniture issues for some years now and children whose parents cannot afford the recommended desks have bought plastic chairs for their wards to bring to school while the less privileged sit on stones or the bare floor," he added.

Mr Ake-emah-Kapoe, who was on a monitoring visit to the school said it had only four teachers who are handling the six classes adding that management have decided to combine primary 1 and 2 in one class as well as primary 3 and 4 in another class to enable the four teachers handle the entire school.

He said teachers could not give classwork to the pupils and monitor them effectively because it was difficult to always bend down or squat to be able to assist them.

According to him, the transfer of the teachers out of the school started in 2018 without replacement and the school did not get its share of the current posting of teachers to basic schools.

He added that, the situation was having a toll on academic work and appealed to the government and other Non-Governmental Organizations to assist the school with dual desks.