ABANDONED STATE BUNGALOW DETERIORATE AS DIRECTOR LODGES IN A HOTEL IN TARKWA

The Abandoned Bungalow in Tarkwa

After lodging in a hotel for more than two years, the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Director of Education has finally moved into a two bed room self-contain apartment rented for her by the Municipal Assembly while her abandoned official bungalow deteriorate in it dilapidated state.

For more than two years, the Education Director for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality has been lodging from one hotel to the other. This is because the formal director who currently went on retirement complained of seeing snakes in the house.

She left the bungalow with her family out of fear thinking that will also allow the assembly to fix the deteriorating wooden decking’s in the house. 

Front View of  the Abandoned Bungalow in Tarkwa

When I visited the abandoned bungalow of the Education Director in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality at Government Hill next to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) bungalow, I realized that the all the decking’s used in the said bungalow has fast deteriorated and needed to be replaced.

The basement of the bungalow has sadly become a home for squatters.    

The new Director Education for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, Anastasia Kuntaa corroborated the story adding that she has been lodging in a hostel in Tarkwa since May 2016 when she took over from her predecessor until December 2016 when she was informed that the assembly has secured a two bed room self-contain for her while she was indisposed. 

The Basement of the Abandoned Bungalow in Tarkwa

She said that, the rented apartment is temporal and because she is fully aware the immediate past Municipal Chief Executive, Christian Cobbina directed the assembly’s engineer to renovate the place for her.

Mrs. Barbie Annan Nunoo

But the Public Relations Officer for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly, Mrs. Barbie Annan Nunoo disclosed to me that the Assembly needs two hundred and forty-two thousand Ghana Cedis (GHc242, 000) to rehabilitate the official residents of the Municipal Education Director of Tarkwa and the assembly has yet not award that contract for the bungalow to be renovated since the money involve is way too hug for the assembly to bear.

Basement of the Abandoned Bungalow 

However, the assembly according to her will definitely renovate the official bungalow of the Municipal Director of Education because it’s a government property and reminded us that the assembly cannot continue to rent accommodation for the Directors of Education posted to the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality. 

Front View of  the Abandoned Bungalow in Tarkwa

Meanwhile, the current director of Education of the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, Anastasia Kuntaa is proposing that civil servants staying in government bungalows should be levied towards a periodic maintenance of the government bungalows in which they reside.

She believes that will ensure commitment on the part of these citizenry in protecting state properties.                             

                                                                        
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DANGER LOOMS AT FIASEMAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, TARKWA.

Dilapidated building serving as schools assembly and dining hall at FIASEMAN Senior High School in Tarkwa is posing serious threats to the lives of students and both teaching and non-teaching staffs in the school.

With the current student enrolment of thousand six hundred, FIASEMAN Senior High (FIASEC) stands with a grate deficit to infrastructural facilities. This in adequacy has compelled the authorities convert some of the class rooms to administration block and staff common hall.  

Parts this science laboratory block for the school is now used as the girl’s dormitory and a home for the schools house mistress and her family.

The school’s assembly hall which doubles as the dining hall and the kitchen is gradually sinking into it foundation. A condition the girls lament to metro news gives the boys in the science class the privilege to invade their privacy at their dormitory.

This uncompleted structure which was started some 16 years ago was to serve as the schools administration block but the project has turned into a white elephant on the compound of the school and the where about of the contractor is also not known.

Some of the teachers in the school who spoke to our correspondent noted that the school is sitting on a time boom waiting to explode and as teachers they dread for their lives and that of their pupils.

According to them several petition to Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education as well as other stakeholders has all note materialized for more than thirty years now yet the population of the school keeps increasing.

Authorities of the school are pleading for urgent attention now which they say will enable conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning.

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