Some teachers in the Western Region are ruing the lack of facilities for effective teaching of Information Communication Technology (ICT). They accuse government of showing little or no commitment at all in providing the requisite materials for the teaching of the subject. The policy to teach ICT in schools was introduced some three years ago but students, mostly in the rural areas, can only imagine the shape and make of most ICT gadgets. Joy FM correspondent in the Western Region, Kweku Owusu-Peprah toured some of the rural schools in the region and reports of the increasing frustrations teachers go through in teaching the subject. Most of the students he spoke to had not seen a computer before and could only attempt a description of it based on pictures they had seen and what they had been told by their teachers. “It looks like TV and shows pictures,” Raphael Boadu, a primary five pupil answered when asked what a computer is. “It looks like a television. It can be used to complete a sentence,” another told Kweku Owusu-Peprah. A teacher of the Atieku Catholic School said they laboured to get a computer to the school but without electricity, its use is highly curtailed. Even more debilitating is that most of the schools were yet to be connected to the national grid, with the whole region boasting of only 49 per cent electricity coverage, Peprah confirmed. The President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Paul Apanga has appealed to government to, as a matter of urgency, channel resources into the teaching of ICT in the country. “For now government with the scarce resources have been able to provide some basic infrastructure in terms of workshop laboratories for some basic and second cycle institutions but it is not adequate,” he lamented. He also regretted the paucity in ICT professionals in the country and hoped some teachers will take up the challenge train in ICT training. The General Secretary of GNAT, Irene Adanusa is resisting the policy to write ICT examination as a compulsory subject hoping infrastructure will be provided at all schools for effective teaching and learning of the subject. The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) runs a voluntary exam on ICT nationwide. Play the attached audio for excerpts of Peprah's interview with the students and teachers Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana