By Yaw Opoku MensahYaw Opoku Mensah, PA to former Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum
The Director General of Ghana Education can not be allowed to sacrifice the Ashanti Regional and the Obuasi East District Director on a claim of playing a role in the Obuasi SHTS case when the Director General received the report from his own committee on 16th of September without acting until 14th October when the minister directed the heads’ interdiction.
The Director General’s failure to interdict the head in the early days shows his interest in shielding the Headmaster for political reasons.
We can not allow the director general to sacrifice innocent subordinates to protect himself from public backlash. He should be the one to suffer for his inaction on the matter.
For the avoidance of doubt, Obuasi SHTS is not in the jurisdiction of Mr Nketia who is the Director for Obuasi East while the school is in Obuasi West and has no jurisdiction over SHS according Act 1049.
In what role will the Obuasi East Director play in the case when the Obuasi West Director admitted to not acting on the numerous petitions he received on the rape cases?
The Director General of the Ghana Education Service who only took interest in the matter on the 14th of October after a ministerial directive is now trying to sacrifice the Regional Director and the Obuasi East Director for nonexistent allegations of playing a role when they acted on his interest at the committee level.
This interdiction is purely mischievous and politically tainted to save the skin of the DG from a possible public call for his head for sacrificing the interest of the service for partisan interest.
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