{"id":286859,"date":"2017-01-21T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286859"},"modified":"2017-01-21T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:12:01","slug":"mawuli-shs-students-lament-over-water-food-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/mawuli-shs-students-lament-over-water-food-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mawuli SHS students lament over water, food shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Students of Mawuli Senior High School at Ho in the Volta Region, have been complaining about inadequate supply of food, water and electricity, as the school\u00a0struggles to meet payment demands from their service providers.<\/p>\n
According to the students, they have been living without adequate potable water for the past four weeks, and survive on contaminated water from the school’s well and dugouts.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe use to depend on the Well for water, but due to the population in the school who fetch water daily, the water is going drastically down. We are now fetching mud water to bath, water containing frogs which is giving infections on our skin\u201d a student lamented.<\/p>\n Final year students who were earlier housed in the school to be prepared towards their West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), said they had to bear the brunt of food and electricity rationing, as a result of the indebtedness of the school to service providers.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cNow in terms of the food, due to lack of water, it is very difficult for the kitchen staff to prepare our daily meal for us. Though we are about 3000 in the school, they only give us like 10 pantry bowls. And they are making us starve. We are really in need in our academic and social lives\u201d a student lamented.<\/p>\n They said the Assistant Headmaster of the School, Mr. Yram Gadotor at one of their gatherings, disclosed that the school was owing the Ghana Water Company over GHC700, 000, and are also to meet demands of electricity bills.<\/p>\n