Teachers and pupils of Ekumfi Egyakwaa Owuya D/A Basic School do not have toilet and have to share the school farm and the bush around the school compound to ease themselves.
According to some teachers who spoke with OnuaOnline, sometimes their pupils identify them in the bush and call them which makes teaching them afterwards become embarrassing.
“The toilet matter is really serious. We go with the kids. Sometimes you go to the classroom and pupil will tell you, Sir I saw you in the bush which is so disturbing. When it happens like that your zeal to teach dips so we are calling on the authorities to come to our aid and help build some for us,” a disturbed teacher told OnuaOnline.
Another teacher who is also disturbed about the development noted “we go to the bush to ease ourselves and meet our teachers and it really becomes frustrating. So we plead with the government to as a matter of urgency come and build us a toilet facility to use. One other issue is that, we usually battle the bushes with snakes and scorpions which is really problematic for us.”
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Meanwhile, some of the pupils who relayed their ordeal to Onua News’ Nana Yaw Asare were disturbed about other challenges confronting the school aside from the sharing the bush and the school farm as places of convenience with thier teachers.
“We visit the bush whenever we want to defecate. We go and meet some of our pupils there and we have no choice but to join them to ease ourselves because there is no toilet facility in the school. It is really disturbing. There was a time a teacher went had a serious cut on the ear from a thorn and had to be rushed to the hospital,” a girl shared.
“We don’t have toilets. Our school building is collapsing. We plead in the government to come to our aid. We visit the bush with our teachers and it is very troubling. Because the entire place is full of faeces sometimes we step into it and come to the class full of faecal smell,” another pupil narrated.
“Some of us come to school and go back home to drink water and by the time they return, one lesson would be over. This is because we don’t have water here. Also, because we do not have toilet, sometimes you’ll be in class and hear screams from the bush only to realise a pupil has been bitten by a snake whilst defecating inside the bush,” said a school boy who looked worried over the issue.
Another girl shared how a snake bit her mate some time ago. “Sometimes we go to the bush and meet our teachers. A mate of mine was once bitten by a snake”
