With schools having reopened in the Nkwanta South Municipality in the Oti Region after two months of closure due to tribal conflict, education stakeholders are appealing to authorities to consider relaxing the curfew to ensure tuition for pupils. 

The teachers say this will enable them to catch up with academic time lost in the heat of the conflict.  

Speaking with JoyNews, a teacher at the Roman Catholic Basic School, Mary Adabadzi said “So we plead with them to give peace a chance, whatever the situation, they should let us solve it amicably. We will plead because we have lost so much and all that they have lost, their friends have covered it already even in the municipality.

“We will plead that they give us the chance so that we will have extra classes with the kids so that we can cover up with the children. So that when the time comes at least they will be able to perform to our expectation," she told Peter Senoo.

At Nkwanta Senior High School not many students had reported for academic work.

A senior house parent, Patrick Abobli said that the presence of security has helped ease the tribal dispute therefore if the curfew is relaxed it helps them.

“For now security is on the ground, and things are better except for the curfew which will affect normally come from the house and if the curfew will be relaxed it will also help us.

But responding to the pleas of the teachers, MCE for Nkwanta South and chairman of the Municipal Security Council, Bright Lenwah, says the Municipal Security Council is working towards easing the curfew.

 He assured the teachers and students of adequate measures put in place to enable them to carry out their academic activities freely. 

“We are working towards that and even prior to the reopening of the school with the security service mainly the police with some military officials are supposed to exchange some of the students who have reported on the first day.

“Earlier there was an engagement to give them the assurance that they are safe. Security is in place and that they could return to do their normal business and legal business,” he assured.