City authorities are optimistic the shift system will be abolished as planned by September. Over seventy thousand pupils in the Accra metropolis study for only five hours daily because their schools run shift. This enables another batch of students to use the classroom. Accra mayor Alfred Vanderpuije tells Joy News his plan to abolish the system next academic year is on course. “We have worked with some private schools who have classrooms that they are not using and have rented them to us. We have identified structures in the community that we can use for classroom. “…We have also identified some churches that we can use for classrooms and then we are building new structures. “So we are going to start school with every child getting eight hours of school in Accra,” Alfred Vanderpuije assured. The AMA boss also reacted to suggestions that the new system cannot be sustained. “We are going to be responsible as I have said. It is an obligation of the AMA. If the children increase, we have a responsibility to do it. “The point is that we owe this children eight hours of education we must be seen to be responsible. We cannot ignore that responsibility,” he said. Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana