The Ghana Education Service has expressed worry about the increasing rate at which school lands were being taken over by estate developers and called on traditional rulers and other stakeholders to help address the problem.

The Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, said everything should be done to protect these lands against encroachment.   

Mr Onyinah was inaugurating an 11-Member Board of Governors for the Manso-Adubia Senior High School in the Amansie West District, chaired by Mr Osei Amankwaah, a retired educationist.   

Mr Onyinah urged the Board to make sure that the school’s land was properly demarcated and documented to avoid future disputes.   

He reminded the members of their responsibility to assist the Headmaster in the policy direction of the institution and to offer meaningful advice to raise academic performance.   

Mr Onyinah, however, cautioned that it was not within its remit to take-over the day-to-day administration of the school.

He advised the Headmaster to ensure that the audited accounts of the school were available to the Board to prevent unnecessary suspicion and mistrust.

Mr Onyinah commended the Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) for its significant contribution by way of the provision of infrastructure and other academic facilities.   

This, notwithstanding, he warned the Association against arbitrary imposition of levies on students.Mr Anthony Appiah, the Headmaster, said the PTA had built a-two-unit staff bungalow and classroom block for the school at a cost of GH¢80,000.

Established in 1998 with a student population of 45, the school now has 900 students.

Mr Appiah therefore appealed to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GetFund) to help build dormitories to accommodate the students.

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