Pupils of Orchard International School at Ablekuma-Joma in the Ga West Municipal of the Greater Accra region are unhappy about the spate of rock blasting activities in the community.
The pupils want Regimanuel Concrete Products Company Limited to relocate from the community, noting the deafening noise and vibration accompanying the rock blasting activities is detrimental to their health.
A visit to the school showed how the impact of the rock blasting activities from Regimanuel Concrete Products Company Limited is telling on the school walls.
Structural cracks have developed at various sections of the school’s wall, gradually making the school unsafe for habitation.
Some of the pupils who spoke to the news team expressed worry about the blasting, noting they usually get scared when the rock blasting activities start.
Some claim they sometimes run out of their classrooms for safety.
Some of the pupils told GHOne News, “Sometimes when teaching is in session and the blast happens everybody gets terrified and even and some even run out of the classroom. This distraught the teaching. Some feel scared of the blast because of that they don’t come to school.”
“The blast activity is affecting our lives. When you are in the classroom you even concentrate. Government should relocate them to another place.”
Headmaster of Orchard International School, Martin Abocco recounts the ordeal the school is going through and says operations of the quarry company is affecting the quality of teaching and learning in his school.
He claimed several attempts by management of the school to get the company to relocate has proved futile.
“When the pupils are going home, we are always whether they will get safe or not. The government should choose between the inhabitants here and one single investor,” headmaster of the school lamented.
The school established in 2013 was adjudged one of the best schools in the Greater Accra region in 2107 after the first batch of 17 students obtained aggregate six to nine at the Basic School Certificate Examination.
The pupils therefore say ongoing activities by RCP, is likely to thwart their effort if government does not intervene at the next opportune time.
Source: GHOne News/Samuel Lancelot Boateng
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