Education · Michael Teye Amartey

Oti Boateng Senior High School in dire need of infrastructure development

The Oti Boateng Senior High School, OBOSS, in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region is in dire need of Infrastructure development to enhance quality teaching and learning in the school. 

The situation has compelled students to eat in the open as the dinning shed the students are currently using is not fit for purpose and cannot contain them.  

Established 35 years ago as a category B school, the Oti Boateng Senior High School, OBOSS, faces a severe, decades-long infrastructure deficit that directly disrupts daily academic and boarding life .

Despite the school’s massive student population of over three thousand 500, a string of abandoned government projects has forced students to learn and live in highly substandard conditions.

A large-scale multipurpose dining hall project originally started over 13 years ago and re-awarded in 2019 remains stalled at the foundation footing stage.

The old wooden dining hall was demolished to make way for this permanent structure. Thousands of boarding students are forced to eat their meals in the open yard, on compound verandas, or inside congested dormitories. 

During rainy periods, dining is entirely disrupted, causing students to skip meals or eat in highly unhygienic environments. 

According to the Head Master of the School, Mr. Francis Tekpertey the challenges have been reported to the appropriate authorities. 

He expressed optimism about a positive response.

The school cooks operate from a highly improvised temporary pavilion situated right in the middle of the school’s playing field. 

Without a dedicated storage room for food supplies, sacks of grain, and other perishable food items are regularly stacked openly along classroom corridors, creating an eyesore and disrupting student movement.