About five empty buckets are usually used to trap rain water due to leakages in the office of the Upper West Regional Director of Education when ever it rains.
This is done to prevent water from flooding the office and possibly causing harm to vital documents.
Mr. Fabian Belieb, the outgoing Regional Director of Education, said this when Alhaji Issahaku Salia, the Upper West Regional Minister, undertook a tour of Ministries, Departments and Government Agencies in Wa to find out their challenges.
He therefore appealed to the Regional Minister to see to the renovation of the block to make it attractive to the public and comfortable for the workers.
Mr Belieb said most of the top officials were on retirement and that Ghana Education Service was working towards filling those vacant positions.
On the issue of teachers’ accommodation, Mr. Belieb appealed to the District Assemblies to put up houses in their districts for teachers to rent.
Mr. Ismael Marda, the Regional Science and Mathematics Coordinator, also appealed to the District Assemblies to take interest in sponsoring Science and Mathematics programmes, best teacher award ceremonies and mock examinations.
Alhaji Salia said successive governments had not been able to provide adequate teachers’ accommodation because of logistical constraints.
He appealed to the officers to be patient with government while it worked towards eliminating all the under tree schools before
tackling the issue of accommodation for teachers.
He said the government would do its best to address the situation.
On the renovation of the education block, the Regional Minister assured the workers that he would take up the issue with his Chief Director to have the block renovated.