GES to Run Structural Integrity Test on Uncompleted Education Structures
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced plans to run integrity tests on all uncompleted structures across the country to ascertain their safety.
The test will be run on both ongoing developments and stalled structures.
The Director-General of the GES, Prof Ernest Kofi Davis, made this known on Monday, March 29, 2026, when he visited Experimental D/A School in Accra Newtown, where an uncompleted school building collapsed on Christian worshippers on Sunday.
According to him, an emergency meeting will be held with the relevant authorities immediately to address the matter.
“What we are going to do immediately is to convene a meeting. We are going to have an emergency meeting with the regional and national team and then work with the state department to look at the structural integrity of uncompleted spaces that are being used to ascertain whether they are actually good for that purpose. Once we are sure that they are safe, we will use them. Once they are unsafe, we will make sure students don’t use them,” he told the press.
The accident on March 29, 2026, claimed three lives and left 20 others injured.
Story by Hajara Fuseini
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