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Students began arriving at the Kumasi Secondary Technical High School (KSTS), as early as six o’clock am on Monday defying the early morning rains in Kumasi.

Several of the students who got in with their parents carried their luggages, chop boxes and other academic requirements.

The school’s administration was inundated with documents of students filling in their data after confirming their names and serial numbers on a notice board displayed at the entrance of the administration block.

The only challenge however was that several of the students who were admitted into the boarding school were denied access because one of the female dormitories got burnt in a fire outbreak two months ago, while school was on vacation.

Some parents who were denied boarding facilities were worried the development was going to cost them more to provide transportation for their wards daily to and from the school.

A parent told Ultimate News’ Eno Safo, “when I calculate the total transportation for my child for this term, it is around six hundred and thirteen cedis. I think we have been given a free senior high school but we will not feel it if we are paying all this as transport fares. I am pleading with Nana Addo to help rebuild the dormitory so that we can bring our children here’.

The head master of the school, Asare Badiako Ampomah however assured that the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) had sent in engineers to assess the state of the affected dormitory to see the way forward.

He indicated that “most of the students who came to the school came from the Western and Greater Accra regions and management is yet to meet to deliberate on the way forward.”

The Ashanti regional director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Mrs. Mary Owusu Akyiaw who visited the school took notice of the situation with the boarding facilities.

She assured, “The girls dormitory got burnt so we have a challenge with the boarding facility and they are trying to fix it and i know by the middle of the term, some students will be accommodated.”

She however expressed satisfaction with the processes that had kick-started in all the Senior High Schools her team had visited.

She indicated that all the complaints and challenges recorded in the visited senior high schools have been submitted to the Education head quarters in the capital Accra for redress.