ARE CONTRACTORS WHO BUILD EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES MONITORED

My school was in hysteric joy when the headmaster announced that a six unit classroom block was to be built to augment the few facilities in the school to cope with the current number of students in the school. I personally was beside my self with joy not because of this particular piece of information but another that it will be completed by November that year (2010). Now as I painfully put up this piece the said classroom block is still under construction.

What kind of ineffieciency is this? Does the government know that this building is not yet completed? If yes what is that they are doing about cases of this nature? Go around most secondary schools these days and you will find out that such is the case.

Another issue of wonder is the shoddy work most of these politicians demonstrate. Eventhough the building has not yet being handed over, there are deadly cracks on the walls and the roofing is almost coming off. If this instance was peculiar to Nandom Senior High School this piece would have been out of place. But it is the same story nationwide. Yet nothing is done about this phenomenon. Sometimes the schoold authorities also keep quiet as if a fishy kind of thing is going on.

The government of the day must rise to the occasion to arrest this observation. It is wasting my fathers tax and your mother's tax as well as your friend's cousin's tax.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE

This simple but really interesting question has been disregarded by many of us and that unfortunately has turned out to be the determiner of our ability to chalk our set goals. Many of us want to be what people feel we should be and not really what we will honestly like to be.

'my dad said reading medicine will be better than the arts I am currently thinking about doing' is a very common thing many people say day in day out. Many of us forget that every human being is unique and very very different from another and no two people can be exactly the same. I mean it, not even you and your father or mother can ever be the same. You might share common physical features and sometimes emotional and intrinsic tendencies and but that is not enough evidence to show that you are just as the same as him or her.

Unfortunately some of our parents in their quest of guiding us to go for the best turn to cripple and rape us of our dreams as youngsters. What will be the beauty in life should we all come out to be people with the same capability. That we are all Lawyers, who will go to the farm to make sure that our stomachs are filled three times each day.

Dear reader, always believe in yourself and always bear in mind that you are different and will continue to be who you are and not what someone or somebody is. There develop your own intrinsic capabilities and rely on yourself to reach fulfillment in life.

WUTOR MAHAMA BALENG

IN SCHOOL