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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has sacked two Senior High School headmasters for extorting money from students despite strict directives from the Ministry of Education not to do so.
A statement signed by the Director General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, on Thursday said the two headmasters: Mr Biasu Wisdom of Pentecost SHS and Assistant Headmaster of Daffour SHS, Rev. S.P. Elewokor are ‘relieved’ of their post.
The headmaster of Duffour SHS, Mr. S.C.K Agbakey, will be reprimanded for failing to supervise his subordinate the statement further indicated.
Meanwhile, seven others are to be interdicted pending further investigations into the allegation against them.
During a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s "Alhaji and Alhaji" Saturday, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr described as ‘unfair’ and ‘repugnant’ the dismissal of the headmasters.
“I find it extremely unfair because over the past weeks, they (headmasters) have been begging for guidelines…what should we charge and what we should not charge and so on… as at today the guidelines have not been given to them so why won't they make mistakes and if they make mistake why dismiss them…I can't believe it...how is it a crime for headmasters to ask parents to pay hostel fees? (if they don’t get accommodation in the school?”) he quizzed.
According to him, "we were trying to talk to one of the affected headmasters and he told us that he's been warned by the ministry not to speak; you have sacked the person and then you say he can't speak; what kind of society are we building? I find this extremely repugnant...it is just an attempt to create the impression that those who are complaining about the implementation of this programme are just saboteurs. I have heard people call the headmasters corrupt, lazy, thieves. What is the basis for calling them thieves...I think they are just being used as scapegoats and are just being treated unfairly.”
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It's Alhadji and Alhadji. So what do you expect? Nobody has alternative facts to prove otherwise. Everybody on that platform corroborates with Kwesi's parochial reasoning as the truth. You challenge Kwesi with facts and he never comes back. So any news? Sorry, Folks!
Eii kwesi pratt, which ShS headmaster does not know that students should not be charged? Your hatred for a particular party is turning to be hatred for Ghana's development.
Ei, this guys hatred for Nana Addo will soon turn into ***barred word***!
This guy is a ***barred word*** journalist, and Ghanaians should not take him seriously
the chief opportunist of our time. i hail u
Kwaku has read in Metro TV morning program on Wednesday morning this week SNC some Head master were acting like illiterates and pretending they had received and read through what was their responsibility . This is turning into absurdity and mischievous.
If something is termed free why should anyone pays money or be charged at all ? Pratt is deliberately pretending he doesn't know the difference between the two and besides he's been taken bribes from ndc so he thinks it's so cool for those headmasters to extort money from parents who aren't supposed to pay anything for their children education.
i put my radio off when i hear his voice. Have u ever hear him speak his mind on an emerging issue. he only identifies weaknesses of any development and criticize it. Fake guy! Traitor!
Mr grasscuttter tteeth, you predicted that this God sent policy would never see the light of the day, Now it has arrived and successfully implemented, one would expect you to keep your evil acidic mouth shuttt than to comment on it, why should the government continue to keep people who think and act like you around it.left to you alone, this shouldn't survive,may the Ghost of Kwame Nkrumah descend from the grave and gives you one dirty slapppp that will eventually twist your mouth like edey bii K3K3
You evil imp.Who told you there were no guidelines?You know very well this is normally the 'cocoa season' of these rabid headmasters.They make parents pay all manner of unapproved fees.You Pratt should be the one dissing these hesdmasters for milking poor parents over many years. One of these days you will open that huge cavern you call a mouth and all your teeth will fall out.