About 2,000 dual desks rotting away at VR-GES
Monday, May 10, 2021
Close to 2000 dual desks handed over to the Volta Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) by the Coastal Development Authority (CoDA) have been left in the open to rot.
The desks, numbering 1,950 in all, have been handed over to the GES by the Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa on behalf of the CoDA for onward distribution to 28 schools across 14 districts of the Volta Region since March 2021, but have since been left at the mercy of the weather in the office premises of the Regional Urban Roads Department in Ho.
About two months ago in March, the Regional Minister in a Facebook post, announced the handing over of the school furniture to the VR-GES as part of the CoDA Sponsored Schools Project under the Authority's Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Program (IPEP), the implementing vehicle of the One Million Dollar, One Constituency initiative of the government.
“I received and handed over One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty (1,950) dual desks to the Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service on behalf of the Coastal Development Authority (CoDA).
The desks are to be distributed to twenty-eight (28) CoDA sponsored school projects within fourteen (14) Municipalities and Districts of the Region.
The desks and school projects form part of the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Program (IPEP) under the One Constituency One Million Dollars initiative of government", the Regional Minister posted.
However, checks by West FM reveal that two months after the official handing over of the items to the Ghana Education Service in the Region, only 4 districts out of the 14 beneficiary districts have been able to make transport arrangements to convey the desks to their districts.
West News has also gathered that the GES has not been able to make transport arrangements for onward distribution of the desks to the beneficiary districts and schools due to lack of funds.
Other sources close to the development also reveal that even though the desks were only handed over in March 2021, they have been lying in the open at the mercy of the weather since the end of November 2020.
This has led to the deterioration of the wooden desks as the ever changing weather conditions have had very damaging effects on them.
Story by : Kofi Gamor,West Fm.Ho.