The Ghana Education Service (GES) has called on the police to expedite investigations into the fire outbreak that destroyed the library of the Kwashieman Cluster of Schools. The GES urged authorities to ensure that those responsible are identified and brought to justice.
The library, which was being used to store ballot boxes from the Ablekuma North constituency’s parliamentary election, was engulfed in flames on Tuesday, December 17.
Expressing concern over the incident, GES Director-General Dr. Eric Nkansah assured the public that the perpetrators would be held accountable and dealt with in accordance with the law.
“It is such an unfortunate event, obviously, as the Director-General for Ghana Education Service, it is one of the saddest moments that I would have. The school recently benefited from a library project. I think it came across as one of the best library projects that we have had in the basic schools across the country.
“It has also benefited from some kind of support from the ministry in just recent times. And the last thing anybody would have expected would have been to see the situation that we are witnessing now.
“It is affecting and displacing quite a number of our pupils, but as a service, we also have an education and emergency contingency plan, which is more or less like a business continuity plan that has been activated at the district and regional levels.”
