The Ministry of Education is to provide a temporary accommodation for students who have been affected by the fire outbreak at the Labone Senior High School in Accra.
The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, announced this when he visited the school on March 17.
“…our immediate consideration will be to fix and get temporary accommodation for the girls whilst we fix the dormitory for them,” he assured.
Fire raged through the girls’ dormitory of Labone Senior High School on March 16. Several belongings of the female students were burnt. The roof of the building was also completely burnt.
Mr Iddrisu indicated plans to establish an emergency fund that will help address challenges posed by fire outbreak and rainstorm to schools which get affected by such disasters.
“We intend to apply our emergency allocation of our budget to fix that. We are sure that Labone Secondary School and Northern School of Business (NOBISCO) in Tamale and a school in Akrokkeri in the Ashanti Region which was also hit by a rainstorm, will benefit from our emergency intervention.
“What this means is that government must have a dedicated emergency fund under the Ghana Education Service budget to be able to respond timeously to some of these unpredictable natural and human occurrences,” he disclosed.
Mr Iddrisu decried the existence of uncompleted projects on the school’s campus.
“Notably, there are one or two uncompleted projects there, some dating back to 2012, 2014. That’s regrettable, that should not be the case. We will do our best to get those uncompleted projects going,” he assured.
