Pupils of Manga Junior High School in the Bawku municipality are lamenting over how their slow academic work is affecting them due to the closure of their school.
The Manga junior high school is located in Nyorigu, a suburb of a troubled town in Bawku municipality.
According to Mr. Bukari Kasim, a spokesperson of youth in that community who spoke to a local media house on the 14th of September, 2022 at the school premises, the school was closed down two weeks before vacation due to threatening messages on the life of the head master by unknown people over a piece of land in the school.
Mr. Kasim told Source FM in Bawku that a piece of land was given to one headmaster by the community some years ago for farming, and that since then, any headmaster who comes to head the school has continued to farm on the said land until recently, when the land owner came to take back his land, but the head master resisted and said it was school property.
This has led to some misunderstandings between some community members and the head master.
He also added that, one afternoon before the school was closed down totally, some unknown people broke into the head master’s office and left a note saying, “Stay away from the land, else we will break your legs. Run for your life, or else we will meet on the roadside. We are here for the head master only. “
The threatening messages to the headmaster compelled the regional directorate of the Ghana Education Office to close down the school for the issue to be resolved.
While public schools have resumed since Tuesday for this academic term, Manga Junior High School is still closed.
