The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has put in place security arrangement for the safety and security of Students and Staff of Senior High Schools across the region when they re-open to Final Year Students Monday, June 22.
As part of the plans, the REGSEC is to complement the internal School Security and Safety measures with a standby taskforce to provide protection against criminal activities in and around the various school premises.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, disclosed this to GBC’s Radio Ghana at Oduom in the Oforikrom Municipality at the inauguration of a new classroom block at the St. Louis Senior High School.
All final year students of the country’s Senior High Schools are scheduled to return to school from Monday, June 22 in compliance with the government’s new COVID-19 restriction-easing strategies.
The decision is to allow the senior high schools to adequately prepare their final year students for this year’s exit examination.
Government funded the completion of a two-storey 18 classroom block for the St. Louis Senior High School at Oduom in the newly created Oforikrom Municipality.
The project began in October 2016 through the Ghana Education Trust Fund, GETFund, stalled following the change in government.
At the inauguration, the Kumasi Catholic Archdiocesan Bishop, Most Reverend Justice Anokye, thanked the government for the support in completing the project.
Bishop Anokye however pleaded with the government to complete the 12-unit classroom block initiated by the school’s Parent-Teacher Association in 2014 to augment infrastructure of the school.
He as well appealed to government to complete the school’s only Assembly Hall named after the Kumasi Archbishop Emeritus, Most Rev. Peter Akwasi Sarpong.
The Headmistress, Madam Ama Kyerewaa Benefo, noted that with the availability of the new classroom block, enough space has been created for the school to fully comply with the physical distancing COVID-19 safety protocol when the final year students return on Monday, June 18.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, disclosed that 75 new projects under the government’s SHS Emergency programme are being built in schools in the region. He said the Regional Security Council, REGSEC, is putting in place measures to guarantee safety and security of both students and staff when the schools re-open to final year students.
