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Government and private high schools (SHS) in the western region on Thursday had their turn for the third phase of the ongoing disinfection exercise in high schools across the country.
The national exercise follows a directive from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that all SHS in the country were disinfected before reopening on October 5, 2020 for Form Two students. . And it also aims to keep the school environment safe from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
In Thursday’s exercise, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), the company conducting the exercise, disinfected several schools in the region. These included Fijah SHS, Takoradi, St John’s SHS, Takoradi Senior High School, Takoradi, among others.
Other institutions that also benefited from the exercise were Sekondi, the Technical and Vocational Institute for Community Development, Takoradi, and a community park in CK Mann Anaji in the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal.
At Fijah SHS, which was the first school to be disinfected, the principal, Mr. Kenneth Dotse Agbomafzi, was very impressed with Zoomlion’s exercise, and praised the company and the government for the initiative.
It calmed the fears of the parents and assured them the safety of their children.
He went on to explain that this was because the school had taken all security precautions to protect the return form, two students. He was full of praise for the school staff members.
He took the opportunity to shed light on a challenge facing his school.
According to him, the school does not have a fence, which makes it difficult to monitor and control many of the students.
He indicated that because there was no fence wall, many of them were always tempted to run to town.
Consequently, Mr. Agbomafzi appealed to the central government to help his school with a fence to prevent students from running into the city.
Zoomlion’s regional vector control manager for the western and northern western regions, Mr. Samuel Adu, explained that the exercise was to regain confidence and to assure Form Two students, teaching and non-teaching staff members that their schools were safe for academic work. .
