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Dafeamekpor prays high court: Order government to complete Mahama’s 200 community schools

The opposition MP wants the court to compel the Akufo-Addo government to complete John Mahama’s community day schools

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has filed a suit at the high court seeking a court order to compel the government to complete the building of 200 community day senior high schools started by the John Mahama government in 2013.

On 14 March 2012 the then vice-president, John Dramani Mahama, announced that the Atta-Mills government intended to construct an additional 200 community day senior high schools in each district of the country to enhance access to secondary education.

Speaking at a TEIN NDC rally at the University of Ghana, Mahama said each of the 200 community day senior high schools would consist of two, two-storey, 12-unit classroom blocks, another six-unit classroom block to serve as a computer laboratory, library, a staff common room and a teachers’ bungalows.

Each of the 200 projects, he said, would cost US$1 million and they were expected to be completed by 2014.

Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor
Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor

Contention of applicant

It is the contention of the applicant (Dafeamekpor) that “some time in 2013, the Government of Ghana announced its intention to build 200 community day senior high schools between 2013 and 2016. The previous government was unable to complete the said project within the estimated time.”

The Mahama government, before leaving office on 7 January 2017, commissioned 45 out of the 200 community schools it targeted, the NDC MP says, but “the current Government of Ghana has refused or neglected the complete project to build 200 community senior high schools which was commenced by the previous Government,” he further contends.

Reliefs sought

To this end, the applicant is asking the high court for four reliefs: two declarations and two orders. First, he is seeking a “declaration that the defendant’s [the Attorney General, representing the government] failure to continue and complete the project to build 200 community senior high schools constitutes a misuse and waste of public funds and property and is in contravention of Articles 35(7) and 41(f) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana”.

Second, he is seeking a “declaration that the defendant’s failure to make use of all the 46 community senior high schools constructed by the previous government constitutes a misuse and waste of public funds and property and is in contravention of Articles 35(7) and 41(f) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana”.

By way of orders, the MP is requesting an order “directing the Government of Ghana to complete the project to build 200 community senior high schools within reasonable time” and another order directing the Government of Ghana to “utilise all the 46 community senior high schools for teaching and learning”.

Wilberforce Asare

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