Police recruits at the Police Public Safety Training School (PPSTS) in the Upper East region are compelled to ease themselves in the bush anytime the school’s flush toilets run short of water.
Authorities say the situation occurs mostly in the dry season when all sources of water that the school relies on dry out.
“It’s very, very difficult to get water when the dry season sets in. They go to the bush. Over 800 men and women here have to go to the bush to ease themselves because we don’t have water to flush the waste. And if you allow them to enter the toilet, they are going to choke it.
“We are trying as much as possible to see if corporate bodies, corporate institutions can come to our aid and we have had a positive sign from the UniBank Ghana Limited and I pat their back for that,” the Director of the school, ACP Adusah Poku, told journalists shortly after 134 recruits were graduated into constables Wednesday.
He added: “We have a borehole but the borehole dries up from January. We expect that UniBank is going to build an overhead water reservoir, a concrete one. They will draw water from the White Volta which is about two thousand metres from here, process it and it will be distributed throughout the school.”
Meanwhile, at the end of the training programme, four of the 134 police trainees were honoured at the ceremony for some outstanding results acquired at the end of the training programme.
Abraham Obeng Amoh also emerged as the best recruit.
source:pulse.com.gh
