Some students of the Christian Methodist Senior High School (CHRIMESCO), a day school, at New Aplaku, in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, risked their lives to the brink, when they tried to cross the road at Block Factory, along the Mallam-Kasoa road.
This was during the heavy rains that occurred on Friday between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m, which caused flooding in parts of the Accra, rendering Mallam-Kasoa stretch of the Accra–Cape Coast Road virtually impassable with traffic at standstill.
The students had closed from classes and were bent on going to their various homes at Kasoa and Accra, from where they trek to school and back always, despite the threatening weather.
This Reporter was also trapped under a shed by the road and observed the students make desperate attempts to cross the road to board trotro back home, while the speeding floods had virtually taken over the road, carrying away waste materials including plastics.
Daring to cross the road, some of the students, especially the females, were seen being carried on the backs of their “fearless” colleagues and benevolent rescuers, who were also crossing the road, to safety.
Other students held their hands tightly in groups, and waded through the roaring and swift flood, amid wailing and shouts of caution by bystanders.
Some of the students who spoke with the Ghanaian Times said they could not wait for the rains to stop because they were staying at home far away in Accra and Kasoa and could not foresee when the rains would subside.
A teacher of the school, who spoke with the Ghanaian Times on condition of anonymity, said each time it rained heavily, student found it very difficult to cross that area, which appears to be flood-prone.
He said that anytime it threatened to rain, the school authorities sometimes had no option than to allow students to go home, to prevent them from unforeseen weather vagaries.
Ghanaian Times observed that the school compound was not spared of flood as the whole area was soggy, obstructing classes and any other academic activities.
CHRIMESCO was once sited close to the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, formerly known as Circle, but was relocated to New Aplaku following similar concerns of floods at the area, but it appears the school is yet to be out of it woes.
BY ALHAJI SALIFU ABDUL-RAHAMAN
