The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kwabre East district Hon. Nana Osei Assibey Bonsu has ruled out possibility of closing down of Gyaama Pensan Senior High/Technical School in Aboaso in the district following the students’ demonstration in the school which took place early hours of Sunday January 21, 2018.
The decision was reached after a meeting among the DCE, the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Madam Mary Owusu Achiaw and Aboasohemaa, Nana Gyaama Pensan II, and is to report to the school on Tuesday January 23, 2018, to continue academic work.
At least ten students of the Gyaama Pensan Senior High School in the Ashanti region were hospitalized after they sustained injuries during the demonstration against the headmaster of the school.
The Over 700 students who took part in the demonstration are demanding the removal of the head teacher Kwadwo Boakye Yiadom.
The irate students vandalized some properties in the school including the headmaster’s bungalow and the school’s assembly hall.
Otec News’ reporter Isaac Nsiah Foster who was at the school campus on Monday January 22, 2018, reported that teachers who abandoned their posts were also made to resume, after a meeting among them, the students, the Ashanti Regional Director of Education and the DCE.
We had a meeting and we resolved that we are not sending the children home, the children will remain at post, we’ve asked the police to provide protection for the [students] and property. We’ve made provisions for them to restore their light and water systems which they destroyed and classes will resume tomorrow …,” he stated.
Aboasohemaa, Nana Gyaama Pensan II described the riot as’ unfortunate situation’ and called on the education Ministry and the Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) to speed up in solving the issue that triggered the demonstration, for the good image of the school.
“The school has been named after my stool name ‘Gyaama Pensan’, therefore anything that affect the school negatively, surely tarnish the stool and my name” she added.
Source: otecfmghana.com/ Isaac Nsiah Foster
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