A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana's School of Languages, Professor Kofi Agyekum, has entreated the National Service Secretariat to consider posting 2023/2024 personnel residing in the Volta Region to areas affected by the Akosombo Dam spillage.

In an interview on Peace FM, Professor Kofi Agyekum expressed worry over the challenges facing teaching and learning in the affected communities.

Several districts, encompassing South, Central, and North Tongu in the Volta Region, have been at the forefront of this crisis. The communities of Battor, Tefle, Mepe, Sogakope, Adidome, and Anlo have been inundated.

The schools in these communities have been flooded, and to address the issue of teaching and learning in the interim, make-shift structures have been erected.

On education, Professor Kofi Agyekum said, "What matters to me is the schools. Those in Junior High School (JHS). I'm happy to see some relief. I was so happy to see a truck with student text books. I know the students whose schools have been flooded."

To help out with education and other matters, the senior lecturer noted that it would be wise enough for individuals rendering their services to the country to be deployed to some of the affected areas to help with the education of affected students.

"The National Service personnel have just been posted. So the National Service Secretariat should take its attention there so that this year's personnel who are in that area, the majority of them, should be sent there to teach and help until the water recedes. So this is when we need them," he said.

The impact of the dam spillage on the affected individuals has been profound, with over 26,000 people rendered homeless and displaced, according to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NaDMO).