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CHASS threatens to close down
Senior High schools in northern Ghana
Tamale, March 7, Ghanadot/GNA - The Conference of Heads of
Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has threatened to close
down all public senior high schools in the three northern
regions if feeding grant for the students are not released
by Thursday, March 13.
A statement issued in Tamale said it had become necessary to
close down the schools due to the inability of the
government to release grants to feed the students.
Mr. C. K. Nyabu, Chairman of the Northern, Mr. Francis
Avonsige, the Chairman of the Upper East and Mr. M. N.
Donneyong, Chairman of the Upper West regional branches of
CHASS signed the statement.
The statement said on humanitarian grounds the headmasters
of the schools would allow the third year students to remain
in school since they would be writing their examination
soon.
It said CHASS had on December 22, 2007 and January 29, 2008
written to the Minister of Education, Science and Sports,
the regional ministers of the three regions and the Director
General of the Ghana Education Service explaining the plight
of the schools.
The statement said since the beginning of the academic year,
only 40 per cent of the first term feeding grant for SHS 2
and SH S3 were received. The schools did not receive
anything for the SHS 1 students.
The headmasters said they managed the situation by lifting
food items from suppliers on credit with the hope that the
grant would be released for them to settle the debts accrued
from the first and second terms.
"We wish to stress that all the boarding schools in the
three northern regions have run out of food as suppliers are
no more ready to supply food on credit.”
"We are sincerely very worried about the current state of
affairs and wish to respectfully appeal to the sector
minister to use his good offices to expedite action to
salvage the situation", it said.
GNA
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