ADD Bed Bug Infestation – ECG threatens to disconnect …

Regional News of Saturday, 13 December 2014

Source: GNA

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is threateing to disconnect power from the Ashanti School for the Deaf for owing the company accumulated electricity bill of GH?80, 127.96.

The school authorities told Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that the school is financially handicapped to settle such a whopping amount.

Mr Ofosu Boachie, Headmaster of the school who expressed worry over the disconnection threat said when it is carried out the pupils would not be able to communicate or study at night.

The schools only source of income is government feeding grants of GH?2.20p per pupil per day, which has, in recent times, been raised to GH?3.30 but has not been effected.

It is the feeding grant we rely on. It does not come regularly, that is what we manage to do maintenance, buy fuel and fire wood etc. We cant even pay our creditorsthey are always on us and we have to lie to them all the time, Mr Boachie said.

He said though the school has a standby generator donated to it by Sokpo, a non-governmental organisation from the Netherlands, the authorities could not afford to pay the GH?75.00 worth of fuel required to run it.

The cooks use fire wood, though the school has Liquefied Petroleum Gas tank which has been empty for nearly a year due to lack of funds.

The 595 disability students are living in bed-bugs-infested dormitories for two years and the authorities say they are financially weak to fight the pest-ridden creatures, because the charge for the fumigation process is GH?1,200.00.

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