By Michael Kofi Kenetey
The Oti Boateng Senior High School Old Students Association, OBOSA has climaxed this year’s OBOSA Homecoming Anniversary with a sod-cutting ceremony to construct a 10-seater ultra-modern sanitary facility at the cost of over four hundred and 73 thousand cedis for the school in Koforidua in the Eastern Region.
The Association also presented uniforms, boots and berets at a cost of 20 thousand cedis to the school’s regimental band and the cadet group. They also took the opportunity to appeal to the government to help complete the Assembly and Dining Hall project which has been abandoned for years now.
This year’s OBOSA Homecoming Anniversary which was on the theme “Harnessing Diversity for Collective Development”, sought to bring all past students of the school together to help find ways of providing both infrastructure and academic development to the school as well as to help enhance effective teaching and learning so as to propel the school to greater heights.
The climax of the homecoming anniversary was coupled with numerous activities such as a float through the principal streets of Koforidua by the old and current students, regimental band parade, musical explosion among others.
In an interview with GBC NEWS, the OBOSA National President, Mr. Samuel Appah-Peniel noted that the Association has realized that the school is being confronted with various challenges with the major one being the sanitary facility, hence their decision to help construct the facility.
Currently, the school has a two small walls which is serving as washrooms for a student population of over two thousand.
Mr. Appah-Peniel also used the opportunity to appeal to the government to help complete the Assembly and Dining Hall project which has been abandoned for years for no reason and its absence in some way, is affecting teaching and learning in the school.
The Assistant Headmaster in Charge of Academics at Oti Boateng Senior High School, Mr. Francis Terkpertey speaking on behalf of the Headmaster, Mr. John Hawkson-Arthur noted that the school that has produced great people for the country is bedeviled with facility challenges.
He commended OBOSA for the support adding that the sod-cutting to commence the construction of the sanitary facility for the school has come in handy.
Mr. Terkpertey bemoaned that the school has no Science laboratory and that has compelled the school to convert three of the classrooms to a Science lab with no scientific equipment to undertake science practical.
He appealed to the government, philanthropists and benevolent organizations to come to their aid as the absence of Science lab and Dining Hall is affecting the academic performance of the school
