Narration: An ultra modern 12-Unit classroom block estimated at the cost of 471,000 Ghana Cedis has been completed and handed over to the Bawku Senior high School at Bawku in the Upper East Region. At a ceremony to officially inaugurate the project, the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo said the provision of the new edifice forms part of the national educational crush programme aimed at ensuring additional school infrastructure for most deprive second cycle schools across the country. It is also provided to help ease the problem of classroom accommodation facing the school and also create an enabling environment for effective teaching and learning. Correspondent Isaac Asare was at the inaugural ceremony and has come through with this report.
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Established on October, 11, 1963 as one of the Ghana Educational Trust Schools in the country, the Bawku Senior High School ,formerly, Azoka Secondary School and later Bawku Secondary school has a visionary mandate to producing calibre of individuals who would always stand up for the truth by virtue of their training ,no matter the circumstances. This is enshrined in the school’s motto: “Veritax Lux Mundi” meaning “Truth is the light of the World”. The school which operates in line with the existing policy guidelines of the Ghana Education Service as a public institution has played a critical role in training the needed human resource for the development of the country. The student population of the school currently stands at 2,383 with staff strength of 152 comprising both teaching and non teaching staff. It has for the 2010/2011 academic year admitted 605 new students made of 427 males and 178 females drawn from various parts of the country. . Commissioning the 12-unit classroom block, the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo assured the students of his outfit’s support in providing the needed infrastructure to further enhance the school’s academic performance. He expressed government’s determination to connect all senior high schools to the national grid. This, he noted has become necessary considering the provision of modern libraries equipped with computers, lecture halls, staff bungalows, dormitories, and laboratories to raise the standard of education in consonance with the global challenges. Mr. Woyongo advised the students to move away from violent behaviours and channel their grievances through effective dialogue. He was however grateful to the staff and management of the school for instituting measures to avert student unrest. The Bawku Municipal Chief Executive who is also an old student of the school, Musa Abdullai, charged the students to maintain discipline at the school emphasizing that his outfit would ensure the speedy completion of other ongoing projects undertaken in the school. Mr. Abdullai also entreated the students to take their studies seriously and also make good use of the facility given them. The headmaster of the school, Mr. Bismarck Simon Kpuli on his part appealed to the government through the regional minister to help assist in addressing other infrastructural challenges confronting the school. Academic performance of the school he stressed has improved tremendously over the past few years. This he explained is evident in the 2009 WASSCE results, where the school in spite of its infrastructural challenges coupled with the Bawku conflict scored 100 percent pass, thus qualifying majority of the students for admission into tertiary institutions Mr Kpuli commended the P.TA. and other stakeholders for complementing government’s effort in providing basic infrastructure for the school and urged other organisations to help assist in that regard. Mr. Woyongo in the company of the Acting Regional Director of Education, Mrs Agnes Atagabe, later inspected ongoing school projects at the Kusanaba SHS and Zebilla Senior High and Technical school to assess the progress of work.
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