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Bolgatanga, Ghana – Paulina Patience Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has advised students in the country especially the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) to endeavour to follow laid down procedures and channels of communication to address their grievances.
From the Students’ Representative Council to School Management to District Education Office to the Regional Education Directorate, she urged them to always try and exhaust all channels of communication before hitting the street to demonstrate.
She charged the school management to be proactive and not reactive in picking intelligence on the ground and work hard to nip in the bud students’ concerns before they turn to be national issues.
The Regional Minister gave the advice on Wednesday when she interacted with the staff and the student body of BOTECH following last week Friday’s agitation by the students which nearly turned chaotic.
Digesting the causes that prompted the students’ agitation, it came to light that the students lack water for bathing, poor toilet facilities, non-availability of a school bus, school I.D cards which is yet to be confirmed whether they paid for it or not and substantive headmaster which the the Minister described as legitimate.
However, Madam Paulina Patience was not happy about the poor condition of the toilet facilities at the school and urged the administration to schedule the students to clean the facility on rotational basis as a form of instilling responsibility and patriotism in them.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Philip Liebs
