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Kwamena Duncan, former Central Regional Minister, says the Ghana Education Service should hold a meeting with parents of the two Rasta students and management of Achimota school to resolve their issue.

The management of Achimota school has disallowed enrolment of the two students unless they cut their dreadlocks.

Till the dreadlocks are shaved, Headmistress of the school has refused to accept the students stressing it's against the school rules.

The GES has also upheld the Achimota school policy to deny the students entry into the school.

Speaking on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" programme, Kwamena Duncan appealed to the GES to direct the school management to accept the students but added the education authority must proceed to court to get a ruling on whether or not it is lawful for the students to wear their dreadlocks to school.

He noted that the court should be the final arbiter on this matter. 

"GES should sit with school management with the father and his Counsel. My emphasis is on the innocent Ghanaian child and come up with a certain memorandum of understanding that, look, we won't lay aside the Achimota school rules today or tomorrow . . . Let us not let the child suffer in the interim. Do a memorandum of understanding, let the child be admitted but we will then run to the court . . . The matter has now been settled. Then, by the memorandum of understanding, it's captured in there. The man will append; the Counsel will append," he said.