Authorities of the Leklebi Senior High in the Afadzato South District of the Volta Region are appealing to Government and other stakeholders in education to help solve the acute infrastructure shortage in the school. Headmaster Samuel Senanu Asieni made the appeal at the school’s 50th-anniversary durbar held at Leklebi Dugah.

Established in 1967 as a community secondary school with 24 boys and eight girls, the Leklebi Senior High was absorbed into the public system in October 1977, to attract more students in the area. Since then, successive governments have done little to improve the school’s infrastructure, though enrolment steadily rose to the current figure of 400 students. Because few structures have been built since 1967, the administration block is housed in a hall-and-chamber apartment built by a Japanese volunteer some two decades ago. Leklebi Senior High has no dining hall or kitchen complex.

So, another makeshift was a small structure built for a library in the 1970s being turned into a dining hall for the students. The school currently has no Chemistry and ICT laboratories; what bore a semblance of a lab having been burnt by an accidental fire on 26th December, 2016.

Addressing the 50th anniversary and 14th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the school, Rev. Asieni, thus, lamented the plight of Leklebi Senior High School as a very worrying one.

The Volta Regional Minister, Archibald Letsa, gave the assurance that his government was working hard to address the numerous challenges facing the implementation of the free SHS programme. He, meanwhile, entreated teachers of the school to redouble their efforts to improve student performance.

‘Education for Development in the 21st Century, The Role of Stakeholders’ was the theme for the 50th-anniversary celebration, which also coincided with the first Founders’ Day of the school.