A colony of bats has invaded the lone teachers’ bungalow and classrooms at the Asuboi Municipal Assembly basic schools in the Offinso South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Some teachers of the school are already contemplating vacating their posts if the situation remains unchanged. Asuboi, a farming community, came to the limelight in 2010 after investigations by Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah revealed more than 70 percent of residents were infected with river blindness as they battled an invasion of black flies, carriers of onchocerciasis. Ohemeng visits the community again after four years and reveals teachers have been forced to live under inhumane conditions. Teachers there share their habitation with bats as a 4-unit teachers’ bungalow housing twenty teachers in the local primary and junior high schools has been overrun by a colony of African fruit bats. It is common to hear the screech and squeal of the bats who defy the presence of their human hosts as they make their way into the ceilings; their hideouts during the day. Because of their huge numbers parts of the ceiling in the rooms have been destroyed. Living in the teachers’ bungalow is a misery as the teachers are forced to endure the strong odour accompanying the presence of the bats. The bats, according to the teachers, easily drop faeces in their rooms read more
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