The Ghana Education Service (GES) has urged the police to quickly investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the fire that destroyed the library at the Kwashieman Cluster of Schools.

The library had been used to store ballot boxes for the Ablekuma North constituency parliamentary election before the fire broke out on Tuesday, December 17.

GES’s Director-General, Dr. Eric Nkansah, voiced his distress over the incident and assured the public that the authorities would take appropriate action to ensure the culprits are held accountable under the law.

“It is such an unfortunate event, obviously, as the Director-General for Ghana Education Service, it is one of the saddest moments that I would have. The school recently benefited from a library project. I think it came across as one of the best library projects that we have had in the basic schools across the country.

“It has also benefited from some kind of support from the ministry in just recent times. And the last thing anybody would have expected would have been to see the situation that we are witnessing now.

“It is affecting and displacing quite a number of our pupils, but as a service, we also have an education and emergency contingency plan, which is more or less like a business continuity plan that has been activated at the district and regional levels.”