O’Reilly SHS appeals to President
The Headmistress of the O’Reilly Senior High School, Mrs Mary Adu-Gyamfi, has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to honour his promise to assist in the provision of infrastructure for the school to deliver quality education.
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The Headmistress of the O’Reilly Senior High School, Mrs Mary Adu-Gyamfi, has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to honour his promise to assist in the provision of infrastructure for the school to deliver quality education.
She said when the President attended the annual speech and prize-giving day of the school last year, he promised to assist the school to complete its development projects.
The headmistress made the appeal when the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Afotey Agbo, paid a familiarisation visit to the school last Thursday.
The school, established in 1926 by a Sierra Leonean and adopted by the government in 1960 as a public school, has relocated six times as a result of lack of a permanent accommodation. “Now that the school has found a permanent place at Okpoi-Gonno,Teshie, it is imperative for its infrastructure to be enhanced,” she said.
Ongoing projects, she said, included two dormitories for boys and girls, one storey block and classrooms.
Some of the projects being funded by the GETFund, have come to a standstill due to lack of funds.
Mrs Adu-Gyamfi said portions of the area was also waterlogged and the access roads to the school were in deplorable conditions. She added that encroachers had also taken over portions of the land.
The headmistress said a school, Spintex Academy, had been sited in the middle of the O’Reilly School land, making security of both staff and students difficult.
She asked the Lands Commission to expedite action on the government's Executive Instrument (EI) on the land that the school is occupying to ensure that compensation was paid to the affected residents.
The school will celebrate its 90th anniversary next year.
Nii Afotey Agbo promised to seek a court order to evict the squatters and also assist the school to complete its projects.
Staff and students
O’Reilly SHS has a student population of 1,000, made up of 483 boys and 517 girls. It also has a staff strength of 101,— 62 teaching and 39 non-teaching personnel.