The Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr. Eric Nkansah has called on the Ghana Police Service to speed up investigations into the cause of the fire outbreak at the Kwashieman Cluster of schools and bring the perpetrators to book.
According to him, the school recently benefited from the library project only to be destroyed by fire.
“It is such an unfortunate event, obviously, as the Director-General for the Ghana Education Service, it is one of the saddest moments that I would have experienced. The school recently benefited from a library project. I think it came across as one of the best library projects that we have had in the basic schools across the country.
Dr. Eric Nkansah mentioned that, the fire outbreak has affected academic activities, though the service is doing its best to find a solution to it.
Though the service has put out some contingency plans to help pupils in the meantime, it is calling on the police to fasten its investigations.
“It is affecting and displacing quite a number of our pupils, but as a service, we also have an education and emergency contingency plan, which is more or less like a business continuity plan that has teen activated at the district and regional levels.”
He added that, “the school has also benefited from some kind of support from the ministry in recent times. And the last thing anybody would have expected would have been to see the situation that we are witnessing now”.
The Kwashieman Cluster of Schools library was one of the storage houses for ballot boxes in the Ablekuma North constituency in the 2024 general elections.
On Tuesday December 17, 2024, some unidentified persons set fire in the library due to tensions mounting in the constituency, however the Ghana Police Service announced that, it has commenced investigations into the fire outbreak.
