Amoaku JHS on the Verge of Collapse: Chief Sounds Alarm, Begs Samartex and Assembly for Help
The Chief of Amoaku, Nana Kwasi Sonfo, has issued a desperate SOS over the Amoaku M/A Junior High School, whose classrooms are literally crumbling while pupils and teachers continue lessons inside.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, November 17, 2025, the visibly worried chief pointed to gaping cracks in walls, rusted roofing sheets that leak heavily during rains, and wooden beams eaten away by termites.
“Any day now, this building can come down on our children. We are sitting on a time bomb,” Nana Sonfo warned. “When it rains, teachers have to stop lessons and rush the pupils outside. How can they learn like this?”
The three-unit JHS block, constructed in the late 1970s, has never undergone major renovation despite serving generations of students from Amoaku and surrounding farming communities. During the last rainy season, part of the roof was ripped off by a storm, forcing Form 3 students to share space with Form 1 under one leaking shelter.
Nana Sonfo has made a direct appeal to three key stakeholders:
Wassa Amenfi West Municipal Assembly – to prioritise the school in the next District Performance Improvement Plan
Samartex Timber & Plywood Company – the biggest corporate player in the area, to adopt the project under its CSR programme
Philanthropists and NGOs – to come to the aid of the vulnerable rural children
“Samartex has been good to us with roads and water, but education is the future. We are begging them to give us a new six-unit block so our children can learn in dignity and safety,” the chief pleaded.
Teachers at the school confirmed that attendance drops sharply during the rainy season because parents fear for their children’s lives. One teacher, speaking anonymously, said: “Some days we teach under trees because the classroom floor becomes a pool of water.”
The Assembly Member for the area, Hon. Francis Ackah, has promised to table an emergency motion at the next Assembly sitting and personally lead a delegation to Samartex management this week.
For the over 120 JHS pupils of Amoaku, the daily risk is real — but so is the hope that someone will hear their chief’s cry before tragedy strikes.
