A death-trap school building of
the New Nsuta Junior High School (JHS) in the Obuasi Municipality of the
Ashanti Region has collapsed on a 13-year-old boy.
The incident is said to have
occurred in the early hours of Friday, January 22, 2021.
The victim, identified as Bernard Kwabena Opoku, a
JHS 1 pupil of the school, sustained a deep cut in the head and is receiving
treatment at the Obuasi Government Hospital.
Speaking to Adom News’
correspondent, Isaac K.Normanyo, the victim said he was going to urinate when
the incident happened.
His traumatised colleagues
claimed the school authorities have refused to listen to their complaints to
pull down the structure for a new block to be put up.
Akwasi Opoku, father of the
victim, said the entire building needs to be replaced and called on the
authorities to do something about it immediately.
However, the headmaster of the
school, Frederick Mensah, lamented that he had written several letters to the
Municipal Education Directorate and the Assembly on the need to put up a new
block but all to no avail.
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