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Bueman Senior High School in Jasikan has come under intense pressure as dozens of parents seek admission for their wards following the unsolved land-related conflict in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region.
The unrest has discouraged many parents from sending their children to Nkwanta Senior High School, the main secondary institution in the municipality.
In June this year, a student lost his life to a stray bullet while writing his final-year mock exams.
Read also: Stray bullet kills Nkwanta SHS student in Oti Region
The headmaster of Bueman SHS, Mr Frank Boamah, revealed that his school has been inundated with requests for protocol admissions from students who were originally placed at Nkwanta SHS and other schools in the Nkwanta enclave.
"The Nkwanta conflict is having a repelling effect where we are having overwhelming numbers of students who want to come to Bueman Senior High School, and we are trying to offer them protocol admission because they came to explain the situation to us, and we are all human beings, and so we are also trying to help the situation," Mr Boamah told JoyNews reporter Peter Senoo in the Oti region.
He noted that the school is currently admitting some of the applicants from Nkwanta, but the spaces are limited.
"We have a limit to go, and when we get there, I don't think we will be able to accommodate them any longer," he noted.
The headmaster revealed that, on Saturday, October 18, he was able to admit 813 new students.
Mr Boamah said the development has mounted enormous pressure on Bueman SHS at a time when secondary schools nationwide are admitting students who sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
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