The pupils of Asesewa 'A' District Assembly Basic School in the Upper Many Krobo of the Eastern Region currently have classes under palm branches shed. Sadly, the whole school structures are in a deplorable state with part of the classroom roof ripped off but pupils and teachers learn under it at the mercy of the weather condition. The headmaster of the school, Mr Johnson Anime ( Olympic ) said, the enrolment of the school is 467 from class one to JHS 3. He added that the school has nothing to boast of in terms of structures and materials to enhance teaching and learning. "The school has rented a room outside the school premises to keep books and accessories whose monthly payments are 10 Ghana cedes and now increased to 20 Ghana cedes a month," he said. Challenges The school has no office, the school has no teacher common room, the school has no library, the school has no computer laboratory, the school lack furniture, the school has no equipped environment,
The Kyebi Ritual Murder and the protracted legal battle that followed it had more influence on Ghana’s politics than many appreciate. For some inexplicable reason, and rather worrisomely, not much is written about it in Ghana and it is hardly ever discussed – not even in the context of the biography of its key defence protagonist, Dr J.B. Danquah. There is a deafening silence about his role in the interminable legal wrangle that followed the horrific murder of the Odikro of Apedwa, Nana Akyea Mensah. Murder at the Okyehene’s Palace Six months after the death of Nana Sir Ofori Atta I in August 1943, the Odikro of Apedwa disappeared. According to evidence presented at the trial that followed, while Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro, was on his way to the Palace to perform the traditional custom of Wirempe – the consecration of the stool of the deceased Omanhene with a mixture of soot, eggs, and the blood of a dog and brown sheep’ [Rathbone] – he was attacked in one of the courtyards, giv