MP promises blocks after wall was killed, mother and son

General News on Friday, May 31, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-05-31

The deputy of Ayawaso Central and the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Henry Quartey, have promised 200 bags of cement, 4,000 blocks, among others, for the reconstruction of a school wall who killed a mother and her son in Accra. collapse.

The promise was made about two hours after the wall collapsed on Thursday afternoon, around 1:30 pm, on May 30, 2019, when locals and Kwame Nkrumah elementary school authorities had begged authorities Municipal for more than a year to rebuild the wall, they considered a death trap.

The MP also quickly asked the municipality's engineer to start the work on the wall within 14 days and identify the structures on the walkways so they could be shot down if possible.

Greater Accra Regional Minister Ishmael Ashitey and Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh are also expected to review the state of Nkrumah Nkrumah Elementary School in Newtown, a suburb of the city. Accra, announced the deputy.

He said he was pushing for the construction of a new school building as part of the Millennium Schools Project.

Victims

A mother and her son died at approximately 1:30 pm on Thursday, May 30, 2019, after the school wall collapsed.

Quartey told DGN Online by phone that both ministers would be invited to go to school to badess his condition. If it is later reported that it is not safe, it may be.

It was after teachers and residents had described the school as a deadly trap for DGN Online at the scene of the disaster.

delays

According to DGN Online, if the authorities of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the central municipality of Ayawaso had not been neglected, the dead would presumably be headmasters or kayayi and their son would not have lost his life. painfully after the collapse of a school wall in Newtown, a suburb of Accra.

Eyewitnesses told DGN Online that the baby had died instantly, tied behind the mother, and that she had died at the police hospital, where they had been driven by good Samaritans.

Deadly trap

Some school officials and residents who spoke to DGN Online under the guise of anonymity said they were not surprised at the collapse of the school wall.

Residents and teachers have described the school complex itself as a "death trap" and that this should not surprise the government, the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ministry of Education. Education, if this school were to collapse one day and cause the death of its students. .

One of the teachers who spoke to DGN Online said that the authorities of Kwame Nkrumah School had contacted the NADMO (Organization for Natural Disaster Management of Ayawaso Central Municipality) management on three occasions about the dangerous state of the school, but that she had done nothing.

Admission of negligence

Sylvester Kwakye, director of NADMO for Ayawaso Central Submetro, told DGN Online that NADMO had in fact been approached three times about the poor state of the school complex and its risks to human life.

He has twice reported submitting to the metro director of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly a report on the need to take action to remedy the poor state of the school.

According to him, another report has been submitted to the central municipality of Ayawaso on the state of the school and the complaints of teachers.

Mr. Kwakye told DGN Online that he had been in his job for more than a year and a half and that he became aware of the situation during his first month of taking office.

"We came here three times to do inspections where we wrote our reports," adding that "we spoke with the school authorities, the school head and some teachers. After that we came back. We realized that the wall was cracked.

At the time of inspections, Ayawaso Central was a sub-metro of WADA.

He revealed that NADMO was waiting for WADA to award the demolition contract for the wall to allow the construction of a new wall.

When asked why this was not done, he said that AMA had complained of lack of funds for the project.

Surprisingly, he said, it was only last week that an entrepreneur was brought to school to work on the wall.

Interestingly, the teachers who spoke to DGN Online said that nothing had been done about the situation. When asked if teachers were aware of the contractors' presence at school, Mr Kwakye seemed extremely confused, saying that he could not say if not the teachers were informed.