Thieves, Drug Peddlers take over Labone SHS?

Information gathered by ghananewsonline.com.gh has it that the uncompleted Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Building at the Labone Senior High School (SHS) in Accra, is now an abode for deadly thieves and drug peddlers.

The building, situated at a far end of the school is said to have been taken over by “wee” smokers who occupy the place 24 hours a day and seven days in a week. The situation is said to be more dangerous at night, when these hum-drums swing to full gear to do their own thing. It has been alleged that one teacher who went chasing some students a few weeks ago, had his arm slashed by these hum-drums when he went into the building on one fateful night.

This came to light when ghananewsonline.com.gh news hounds visited the premises of the school last week on a fact-finding mission. According to the authorities at the school, the situation has become so worrisome that it is giving them headaches.

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According to the Vice Chairman of the Parent Association (PA) of the school, James Okoh Aboah, he has had cause to bring security men to drive these hum-drums away, however, whether by design or coincidence, they always bolt before the arrival of the security men only to come back stronger and more fortified when the security men go away.

He expressed worry that in May last year, when the school was celebrating its 70th Anniversary, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, who was the Guest of Honour, promised early completion of the building, as a result of which he charged the school authorities not to tamper with it.

However, a year after the promise, nothing has been done to it. He said the drug addicts have taken over the facility, doing their own thing inside day and night, and thereby posing threats to students and teachers alike.

Okoh, subsequently appealed to the Government, through the Ministry of Education to help expedite action on the completion of the building for its proper use so they can do away with those threats and inconveniences associated with the building ion its present state.

By S. O. Ankamah