BED BUGS: They Are Driving Students Out of Dormitories

Bed Bugs

Teaching and learning activities at some senior high schools in the Volta Region may soon grind to a halt as bed bugs invade students’ dormitories.

The bloodsucking insects have infested the beds of students, rendering them useless to sleep in.

The situation has driven the students out of their dormitories, who have resorted to using the school’s lawns and dining rooms in their quest to find a suitable place to lay their heads.

A student of Mawuli Senior High School said sleeping in the open has also exposed students to snake bites.

He said the situation is frustrating.

According to the Volta Regional Education Director, Alexander Buadi, fumigation exercises are carried out at the end of every term in the various schools in the region, but the bugs may have developed a resistance to chemicals.

Mr. Buadi suggested that using leather covered mattresses may serve as a lasting solution to the problem.

Editorial

Ghana Is Nobody’s Dumping Ground

News that the United States of America is sending two detainees from its military base in Cuba to Ghana is extremely annoying.

Why has the Government of Ghana offered our territory to the United States of America to dump its mess?

Why can’t the detainees who have suffered severe violations of their rights at the hands of US state terrorism not be kept in the United States of America?

Indeed the explanation by Daniel Fannell, head of Public Relations at the US Embassy in Accra that the US was not in a position to keep the detainees is just another hogwash.

 The US knows too well that the enterprise it undertook after 9/11 to arrest, detain and torture many innocent people has done it’s image irreparable damage.

 As Ghanaians, we just wonder why our government should get involved in the reluctant attempt by the US to clean its mess.

Both the government of Ghana and the US must be told that our country is not a dumping ground.