Secondary, Technical, Vocational as well as Basic schools in the Ahafo Region have benefited the ongoing 3rd phase of the national disinfection exercise.
The exercise is in line with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s directive for second year student’s in Junoir High schools and some from basic schools to return to school to complete the academic calendar on the 5th October, 2020.
It is also to ensure that no student upon return to school do not fall victim to the Corona Virus outbreak.
The excercise kick started on Thursdays, covered over 200 schools from the basic to the secondary level in the Ahafo Region.
Beneficiary schools included the Ahafoman Senior High School, the Kukuom Agric Senior High School, the Ken Hammer Schools, the Kenyasi Anglican Basic School, among many others.
Headmaster of Kukuom Agric Senior High School, Mr. Moses Kofi Adu in an interview with the media was elated about the disinfection exercise and recounted how previous exercises have help the school in fighting other insects such as bedbugs.
“The disinfection exercise has been of great help to my school and the schools around. After the first excercise, when Schools reopened i hosted about 850 students here comprising final students and gold track form 2 students, we did not experience any covid-19 or even a malaria case here. This tells me that the exercise was hugely successful and beneficial to the schools”, he said.
Mr. Adu appealed the authoritiesin charge of education in the country to consider disinfecting schools across the country on the regular as it not only helped on curbing the outbreak of the corona virus but has also solved some internal problems students face on their various campuses.
General Manager of Ken Hammer Schools, Isaac Aligi, was of the firm believe that the disinfection exercise has schools and students immensely and joined the call on the government to make the excercise a regular one.
