Lawyer Bede A. Ziedeng, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lawra Constituency, has made a passionate appeal to the government to provide immediate support for the victims of the Eremon Senior High Technical School (SHTS) fire disaster.
He said the immediate intervention by the government for the school would help bring some relief to the students to enable them to go about their normal academic activities.
Mr Ziedeng, who made the appeal in a statement on the floor of parliament, also appealed to public-spirited individuals and organisations to complement the efforts of the government, particularly, in reconstructing the dormitory which was burnt.
The MP called on parents who had their wards in the Eremon SHTS to remain calm as efforts were underway to find a suitable solution for the incident to restore normal academic activities in the school.
About 170 female students of the Eremon SHTS in the Lawra Municipality had been displaced following a fire incident that wreaked havoc on the females’ dormitory on Monday night, February 6, 2023.
Mr Ziedeng said the inferno ravaged the whole structure and destroyed all personal properties of the students including mattresses, stationery, monies, and uniforms as well as student beds running into thousands of Ghana Cedis leaving the affected girls have been traumatized.
Mr Ziedeng noted that not even the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) could save any portion of the building.