Students of Boa Amponsem Senior High School (BOASS) in the Dunkwa-On-Offin in Central Region engage in open defecation as a result of lack of toilet facility.
Currently, an outmoded toilet facility is being improvised but the unhygienic nature of the facility poses a major health threat.
Because the school lacks a toilet facility and for fear students will contract diseases in the locally constructed place of convenience, the students themselves go around to look out for areas around the school, where they can relieve themselves.
When an area is ‘full’ after use, they search for a new area to visit when nature calls.
Students of the school who spoke on grounds of anonymity revealed that the locally constructed structure is weak and for fear of a disaster have resorted to defecating in the open.
They explained that they have no choice but resort to open defecation for the sake of their own safety despite the fact that the practice is producing a stench on campus.
“They have also locked the WC toilet facilities and we are yet to know the reason why authorities have taken such a decision,” they revealed.
Boa Amponsem SHS, which has produced influential persons in the country including leading political figures from both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), was established in 1961 as one of the government schools in Ghana that year.
Meanwhile, the school has started constructing a toilet facility to replace the dilapidated structure which poses a major threat to the lives and health of the thousands of students.
Authorities of the school declined comments when reached with calls from the 1997 year group of the school for answers .
By Benjamin Aidoo|3news.com|Ghana