BOLGA EAST G.E.S YET TO TAKE FULL DELIVERY OF NOSE MASKS ET ALL 27th JANUARY, 2021

 Some schools in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region are yet to receive the full complement of Personal Protective Equipment [PPEs] particularly, nose masks and liquid soap since schools formally re-opened a little over a week ago on Monday, 18th January, 2021.

 The GES Director, Mr. George Asira
 

This is resultant from transportation challenges and some form of ambiguity in the allocation procedures between the Bolgatanga Municipal Education Directorate and the Bolgatanga East District Education Directorate as the latter was curved out of the former a few years ago but yet seem not to be fully autonomous.

In an interview the Information Services Department [ISD] had with the Bolgatanga East District Director of Education, Mr. George Asira this Wednesday morning, it came to light that there were some administrative bottlenecks regarding the full decoupling of the Bolgatanga East G.E.S from its mother-district [Bolgatanga Municipal] and thus on a number of occasions, several logistics often distributed from the G.E.S headquarters to districts in the Upper East Region usually puts Bolga East at a disadvantage as in the case of the COVID-19 PPEs disbursements.            

Though Mr. Asira acknowledged that his district had been allocated about 250 boxes of hand sanitizers, all together containing 20,000 bottles and another 250 boxes of liquid soap comprising four gallons each, the consignment was yet to be picked from the regional education directorate due to lack of transport to cart it. So whilst efforts go on to secure transport for conveying these critical COVID-19 logistics for schools in the district, some 7,408 pupils will continue to only trust God to keep them safe from the Corona Virus. The number is made up of 4,619 Primary School pupils, 1,418 Junior High School students and 1,371 Kindergarten children excluding several others in private schools.

The District Director however disclosed that in the interim, Management of the Bolgatanga East District Assembly had donated some 3,000 pieces of nose masks to the directorate which have since been distributed to schools across the district. Meanwhile, the District’s health authorities also allocated 1,000 pieces of nose masks to selected CHPS Compounds throughout the district for onward distribution to schools in their catchment areas.

Offices of the GES Directorate at Zuarungu

According to Mr. Asira, the G.E.S Directorate in the district had adequate numbers of teachers but needs assistance to get adequate office space for effective administration while majority of schools in the area also lacked standard furniture for conducive academic work. He revealed that district was also faced with high rates of teenage pregnancies and child marriages and cited an instance in recent times, where he had to call in the Social Welfare Department to practically to go retrieve a child that had been given out for marriage and that, the poor girl had since been put back in school.

The Bolgatanga East District Coordinating Director Mr. David Nai-ire also corroborated the challenges regarding the transportation and that as a new district such challenges were obvious but he gave the strongest indication that, Management of the Assembly was in talks with the G.E.S to move the consignment to district. He hinted that, a similar arrangement was also set in motion to bring in several other boxes of same from Tamale in the Northern Region. 

 

 

 

 

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