Peki, July 31,GNA- Mr Clemence Asare, Board Member of the Peki Senior High School on Saturday called for a Presidential intervention to raise the infrastructure status of the School which has existed for 54 years. He described the infrastructure at school as no better than that of a "mushroom" school.

Mr Asare made the call at the 54th anniversary and speech and prize giving day of the School last Saturday under the theme, 93Development of Schools: The Responsibility of all stakeholders". He observed that the infrastructure deficit of the school would persist if 93normal processes and procedures were followed." In his report, Mr John Yao N. Agbai, Headmaster of the School, called on the Peki Traditional Council, the School's Old Students and other stakeholders to support the efforts of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) towards improving the situation.

"It is about time we all put our heads together to help Government= ", he admonished.

"PESCO has come to a crossroad", he said.

Mr Agbai said over 800 boarding students 93squeeze themselves into th= e library section of an administration complex that was started in 1992 but refuse to be completed."

"When the rains set in, the life of our boarders become miserable",= he lamented. Mr Agbai said girls in boarding have since 1999 been sleeping in classrooms because a two-storey girls dormitory started in 1999 came to a standstill in 2000.

Boys in boarding have similarly been lodging in a kitchen complex constructed by the PTA since 1999 while cooking for students has been takin= g place 93under an emergency shed put up by the PTA" with firewood as the fuel for cooking.

Mr Agbai said though the PTA has built a 50 bunk bed capacity dormitory block for the boys, this was still inadequate compelling some of them to sleep in classrooms.

He acknowledged though that a site has been handed over to a contractor to build a boys' dormitory 93which as usual has started slowly." Mr Agbai appealed to the authorities to put pressure on contractors to complete abandoned projects in the school or have their contracts terminated.

He said the infrastructure inadequacies notwithstanding, the School continues to make gains in academic and other extra curricula activities an= d discipline.

Mr Edem Asimah, Member of Parliament for South-Dayi, said conditions at Peki Senior High School constitute a major challenge to the people of the area. Meanwhile, the School's 1977 year group has promised to build a two u= nit semi-detached Masters' bungalows for the school by January next year. Prizes were awarded to students who distinguished themselves in academic and extra curricula activities. Some teaching and non-teaching staffs were awarded for their long and dedicated service to the school.