The front view of the library when it was inaugurated in 2007.
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25th September, 2009
Hohoe Library Leaks ... Begs For Immediate Repairs
The building housing the Hohoe branch of the
Ghana Library Board requires immediate renovation to repair the leaking roofs.
The library materials have been at the mercy of the rain, which pours in from the leaking roofs and through the ornament blocks used to beautify the building.
To worsen the plight, most of the books are piled on the floor since the shelves provided are not enough to pack the library materials.
The Times witnessed this sordid situation when this reporter was taken round by the officer in-charge, Mr Stephen Hekli, after a heavy downpour.
The building, which was put up by the then District Assembly, to move the library out of a rented and non-spacious premises in, the 1990s, was left uninhabited until 2002.
Mr Hekli said when they moved in they detected the problems so they prevailed upon the District Assembly to repair it.
However, after the renovation and rehabilitation work in 2007, the problems were rather compounded. Some of the louvre blades were lost, security lights were not functioning and the soak-away for the toilets uncompleted, even up to date, he lamented.
He noted that the library had enough rooms to seat about 300 readers but there were not enough furniture.
The officer in-charge, therefore, appealed to the Ghana Library Board to step in to help them out of their predicament since the library was serving a useful purpose in the Hohoe municipality.
Ghana Library Board requires immediate renovation to repair the leaking roofs.
The library materials have been at the mercy of the rain, which pours in from the leaking roofs and through the ornament blocks used to beautify the building.
To worsen the plight, most of the books are piled on the floor since the shelves provided are not enough to pack the library materials.
The Times witnessed this sordid situation when this reporter was taken round by the officer in-charge, Mr Stephen Hekli, after a heavy downpour.
The building, which was put up by the then District Assembly, to move the library out of a rented and non-spacious premises in, the 1990s, was left uninhabited until 2002.
Mr Hekli said when they moved in they detected the problems so they prevailed upon the District Assembly to repair it.
However, after the renovation and rehabilitation work in 2007, the problems were rather compounded. Some of the louvre blades were lost, security lights were not functioning and the soak-away for the toilets uncompleted, even up to date, he lamented.
He noted that the library had enough rooms to seat about 300 readers but there were not enough furniture.
The officer in-charge, therefore, appealed to the Ghana Library Board to step in to help them out of their predicament since the library was serving a useful purpose in the Hohoe municipality.
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