Damages Cause by Kongo Students and Fine to Pay.
Students of Kongo SHS & Gowrie Senior High owe more than GHC8.3k for damages to school properties.
The administrations of Kongo Senior High School and Gowrie Senior High School are being tasked to collect over GHS 83,000 from a total of over 500 students. This sum is intended to serve as compensation for the aforementioned schools following incidents where students caused damage to school property during riots.
“Following students rioting at the Gowrie Senior High Technical and Kongo Senior High Schools, the investigative committees constituted recommended that 511 students from the two Schools should pay a total amount of GH¢83,632.58 for damages caused to the schools’ properties. However, the management of the two schools has not been able to recover the amounts from the students.”
This is according to the Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana: Colleges of Education and Pre-university Educational Institutions for the financial year ended 31 December 2022.
163 students of the Gowrie Senior High Technical school owe Ghc163 17,767.00 while 348 students of Kongo Senior High school owe Ghc65,865.58
The report charged the management of the schools to take quick steps to collect the money owed.
“We recommended to the management of the schools to intensify their effort to recover the total amount from the defaulting students without further delay.”