Stay Away From Our Schools ― GES Warns Politicians
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked all political parties to stay off the various senior high school campuses with their campaigns.
The warning comes after a political activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba, was captured in a video, inciting students of the Tempane Senior High School in the Upper East Region against the Free SHS programme.
In the video that had gone viral on social media, Mr. Akamba interrogated the students on seeming challenges they were facing in school.
He then posed leading questions like; “Is it true you are sleeping in the rain; is it true you are being treated badly; are you really suffering? of which the students responded in the affirmative.
Akamba went as far as filming what he claimed to be bedbug bite scars on the hands of the students asked the teenagers to hoot at the President.
The development provoked tons of condemnation from all walks of life across the country.
In a swift reaction through a statement signed by its Head of Public Relations, Cassandra Twum-Ampofo, GES cautioned that Senior High School campuses are not places for political campaigns.
“Management of GES condemns such acts and wishes to bring to the attention of the general public, especially political activists that the Ghana Education Service is a non-political state agency with the key responsibility of implementing pre-tertiary educational policy of the country and wishes to remain as such.” the statement read.
It continued: “Meanwhile, all regional and district directors of Education and Heads of SHS have been directed to ensure that schools and students are not used for political activities without authorization.
“Management wishes to assure parents and the general public that steps have been taken to ensure that students and school premises are immune from such unwarranted political interference.”
Not sorry
Meanwhile, the NDC guru in the midst of the reckless video said he had no regrets for his actions.
“I don’t feel sorry for what I did, my reaction in the school came from what I saw and I’m sure that every other person with such emotion would have done worse than what I did… “I don’t see anything wrong with urging the students to shame the President, what did the NPP not say and do to ex-President Mahama calling him all sorts of names,” he said.
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Grace Ablewor Sogbey
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