STORY: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
THE infrastructural facilities of most police barracks in the Shama Ahanta East metropolitan area are in a deplorable state.
Some of the barracks visited by this reporter showed that the occupants did not have adequate bathhouses, while some of the buildings had developed cracks.
Despite efforts by the Sekondi Regional Police Command to improve these facilities, some of the barracks do not have adequate bathhouses, and that has compelled old, young, male and female tenants to share the same mass bathhouse. They also do not have adequate kitchen facilities.
The structure that is being used as a bathhouse in one of the barracks is a large open building that does not give privacy to users of the facility. They make use of a KVIP public place of convenience .
At Effiekuma, the structures are weak and pose a danger to occupants.
While tenants at Sekondi barracks have a big place for their use as a mass bathhouse, those at the Effiakuma barracks have small wooden structures located behind their buildings for that purpose.
According to some of the tenants, the structures at Effiakuma frequently collapse during rainy seasons, and the occupants who are mostly junior officers, have to look for money to do repair works on them.
The officers said they had no other option than to stay in the buildings.
They complained that during the last rainy season, many buildings collapsed and others developed deep cracks, rendering them not fit for habitation.
At the barracks called the Reserve or the Mobile Force Unit, the structures have multiple cracks and look weak. The buildings have not been painted for many years.
Apart from the cracks on the main structure, the roofs also leak.
The occupants have therefore appealed to the authorities to renovate the barracks to make them safe and comfortable.
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