Rainstorm rips off school building at Sekyere Kumawu

The heavy rainfall on Monday and Tuesday has ripped off the entire roofing of the Sekyere Kumawu Methodist Basic School in the Ashanti region.

Also, a newly constructed stand pump for the community with a thousand-liter water tank was also blown away from its location by the windstorm and completely damaged.

The other affected areas were the economic trees like teak, Wawa, mango, and other species recently planted on the campus and parts of the community.

It is reported that the rainfall lasted close to five hours on Monday and Tuesday.

The storm first affected the headmaster`s office and classrooms where the entire roof blew away, leaving the office and books soaked with the rainwater.

The Sekyere Kumawu District Chief Executive, Samuel Addai Agyekum, and his team visited the school after the disaster to discuss with the headmaster the possibility of relocating the pupils to a makeshift structure they were preparing for them until a permanent solution is found.

He said the situation had negatively affected academic activities in the school.

“We are lucky it happened at the night otherwise children and others could have been injured. We want the situation to be addressed before some of the school children skip school to the farm. Other facilities of the school were also not spared,” he said.