It’s made even harder when tutors do not have the resources they need to do the work they have been assigned to do.

A number of teachers have to improvise to get their pupils a basic understanding of the things they teach them.

One ICT teacher has literally gone back to the drawing board to teach pupils in his class how to use a computer.

In an ideal situation, students would sit behind their computers while the teacher points out the various parts of whichever programme they are currently studying.

Owura Kwadwo and his pupils, however have no such luxury.

Making do with the resources available to him and determined not to let his charges fall behind, the teacher sketched an average Microsoft Word document on the chalkboard.

The parts of the window are labelled, enabling the students to get a fair idea of the various parts of a typical Word document.

The pupils follow suit, drawing their own makeshift computer screens in their books and scribbling down every pointer he gives.

Owura, whose bio notes that he is a former student of Kumasi Academy and currently studies at the University of Education, posted the pictures of the improvised ICT lesson on his Facebook page with the caption “Teaching of ICT in Ghana’s school is very funny. ICT on the board paa. I love ma students so have to do wat will make them understand Wat am teaching.”

The photos, which were posted last Thursday, have since gone viral.

While some Facebookers have praised his ingenuity in the face of the lack of resources, others have expressed dismay at the conditions pupils in rural Ghana have to deal with in their pursuit of knowledge.

Not an isolated case

A number of schools in the country face similar challenges.

Many schools in rural Ghana, including the Gbolo Alzariya English and Arabic Primary school in the Sagnarigu district of the Northern Region are without Information Communication and Technology (ICT) laboratories and tools.

The school’s headmistress, Madam Mahama Maria, revealed to Citi News in January that the only laptop used for teaching the pupils has not been functioning since 2015.

According to her, a philanthropist donated the said laptop to the school with a population of 430 students.

“We have an ICT teacher in the school. In the past we used to have a laptop which someone gave to the school to use but it’s been spoilt for about two years now,” she said

“It is a big problem for us that we have an ICT teacher in the school and yet there is no laptop for us to use and teach the students.”

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By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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This was after a DNA test carried out on the baby believed to have come about as a result of the supposed defilement, proved that he was not the biological father.

Eric Asante, who was granted bail by the Supreme Court in September 2015 based on good conduct after serving two-third of his jail-term, was found guilty on September 5, 2005, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Tamale High Court, for defiling one Rubamatu Mohammed.

But the Supreme Court, ruling on an appeal he filed against his conviction, stated that the sentence of the teacher could not hold because there were a lot of inaccuracies in the evidence provided by the prosecution.

Mr. Asante, who had always maintained his innocence, filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal on October 6, 2006, but it was dismissed.

He then proceeded to the Supreme Court in 2012, where the court ordered for a DNA test to be conducted on the baby.

The court order was served and received on Rubamatu’s behalf by her aunts, Juliet Tinjina and Gladys Abokokpa, who were then taking care of Rubamatu’s child in Tamale.

Although the court gave them a period of eight-weeks within which the test should be conducted, the family refused to bring the child to Accra as ordered by the court.

Not even the intervention of the Northern Regional Police Commander persuaded them to act on the orders of the court.

Months after the order, the baby was finally brought to Accra for the test, with the results showing that the teacher was not the biological father of the baby.

The Supreme Court said Mr. Eric Asante would have to apply to the state for compensation. Renowned Humans Rights Lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu, was the counsel for the teacher.

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By: Fred Djabanor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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