“Have you realised that the kids in the picture were in uniform and that they had exercise books and they were wearing sandals?” he asked on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji programme on Saturday.

Media reports earlier this week highlighted the plight of the pupils in the school who are on a daily basis forced to lie prostrate on the bare floor to write due to the unavailability of furniture.

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Vice Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia subsequently visited the school and promised to provide them with desks for 500 pupils of the school.

But according to the Deputy Northern Regional Minister, the media report which informed Dr. Bawumia’s decision to order furniture for the school was “disingenuous.”

Although he admitted that the conditions under which the students were studying were unacceptable, he quickly added that “if they had the deficit of furniture, it means that some had been done and there was something that needed to be added.”