Authorities at the Sunyani Technical University in the Bono Region of Ghana must ensure that the covid-19 protocols instituted by the government are obeyed.
The school must put in place measures to ensure that the students and the staff-both teaching and non-teaching staff observe the covid-19 protocols religiously.
The authorities took the appropriate steps in consultation with stakeholders and reopened the school in January 2021 as part of the nationwide reopening of tertiary schools.
However, the students only take the protocols serious whenever they are in the lectures hall, while they go contrary when they leave the hall back to their hostels.
Also, the non-teaching staff of the school who are in-charge of ensuring that the protocols are being followed do not care much about the violations.
Even at times the security personnel do not take the temperature of students when they are entering into the campus. They only check on the temperature of students during mornings but fail to do so in the afternoons.
In addition to these, there’s no sufficient water for students who want to wash their hands regularly in accordance with the covid-19 protocols.
The SRC president of the school, Seini Ibrahim Lukman has appealed to all students to obey the covid-19 protocols for their own safety.
It would be recalled that in January 2021, the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo addressed the nation, which he instructed that all public universities should be reopen on the 11th of January 2021 and every single student and staff should adhere to the covid-19 protocols, which include: social distancing, wearing of face mask, sanitizing the hands after washing the hands from running water.
This was made clear to all the universities before reopen.
The outbreak of covid-19 made the president of the republic of Ghana to close down all schools in March 2020. During that time tertiary, second cycle and basic schools ran classes online.
The students who reside in the rural areas couldn’t participate in the e-learning classes during that period.
It was later a call up for students to come back and write their exams within four weeks which hit a lot of tertiary students including those at the Sunyani Technical University very hard.
This was largely due to the break in the academic work of students caused by the deadly covid-19 pandemic in the country.
By Arafat Ayuba, student of Sunyani Technical University very
