Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu promises action on Fettehman SHS infrastructure challenges

The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has pledged to assess the infrastructure challenges facing Fettehman Senior High School (SHS) and provide the necessary support to improve teaching and learning at the school.

His assurance follows a Channel One News report highlighting the school’s poor infrastructure and the intervention by the Omanhene of Gomoa Fetteh, Nana Kwasi Kwaansah, who constructed separate toilet facilities for male and female students after a government-funded sanitation project stalled in 2019.

The report revealed that the delay in completing the government project had forced some students to resort to open defecation in nearby bushes, prompting the traditional leader to build two 10-seater toilet facilities to address the situation.

Mr. Iddrisu said the Ministry would send engineers to assess the school’s needs.

“I will be happy to take a re-examination of the school and see how we can support them. We will send some engineers to make an assessment,” he said.

The Education Minister indicated that the government has allocated significant funding under its school infrastructure expansion programme, which he said could benefit schools with pressing infrastructure needs, including Fettehman SHS.

“I believe that with that money we can add one or two schools that require infrastructure. The programme may run up to 2029; the infrastructure component is about $256 million. All that is to support infrastructure expansion, which the previous government didn’t do, in terms of matching the increase in admission numbers with adequate classrooms, dormitories and laboratories,” he stated.

Mr. Iddrisu noted that many senior high schools across the country continue to face infrastructure deficits, particularly in science laboratories.

“Many of the laboratories across the country are not in good shape, and we need to fix that,” he added.

The minister’s comments come amid renewed calls for increased investment in educational infrastructure to improve learning conditions and accommodate rising enrolment in senior high schools.