Mahama Announces Completion of 30 Abandoned E-Block Projects

President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to complete 30 abandoned E-Block school projects across Ghana as part of efforts to expand access to secondary education and address infrastructure deficits in the sector.

The President said provision had been made in the 2026 national budget for the completion of the projects, stressing that allowing facilities on which taxpayers’ money had already been spent to remain unfinished amounted to a waste of public resources.

President Mahama made the announcement on Thursday, August 13, 2026, when he spoke at Paga in the Upper East Region during his ongoing engagement with citizens.

“In this year’s budget, we made provision for the completion of thirty of the abandoned E-Blocks. Any project in which the government has sunk money already, and if it is not finished, it is a waste of the taxpayer’s money,” he said.

He explained that the government would complete the projects in batches, with the objective of putting existing investments to productive use and creating additional space for students.

The President pointed to the Paga Senior High School E-Block as an example of an abandoned project that has now been completed.

According to him, students had previously been using portions of the facility under difficult conditions, but the completion of the project has provided them with a modern learning environment.

“This school is one of them. We finished it. The children were using part of the facility in very, very terrible conditions. Today they have a very beautiful brand-new school which will improve their learning and outcome,” President Mahama said.

He subsequently directed the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to fast-track the provision of furniture and other equipment needed to make the newly completed facility fully operational.

The E-Block programme forms part of efforts to expand secondary education infrastructure, particularly in communities where inadequate classroom facilities have contributed to overcrowding and the use of the double-track system.

The government has also announced plans for the construction of an additional 30 new E-Block schools under the World Bank-supported STAR-J programme, signalling a broader push to increase infrastructure capacity in the secondary education sector.

The completion of the abandoned projects is therefore expected to complement the construction of new facilities and contribute to the government’s objective of creating adequate classroom space for students across the country.

President Mahama has repeatedly linked the expansion of educational infrastructure to the government’s plans to phase out the double-track system and improve learning conditions in senior high schools.

The 2026 Budget had already identified the completion of 30 abandoned E-Block projects as part of measures to expand secondary school infrastructure and reduce overcrowding.

The latest announcement therefore moves the commitment from a budgetary provision to a renewed directive to complete the facilities and ensure that public investments in the projects deliver the intended educational benefits.