President Nana Akufo-Addo has intervened in the disciplinary action against the eight Chiana Senior High School female students who were dismissed for insulting him.
A statement signed by the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng said “Consequently, the Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has directed the Ghana Education Service to consider an alternative disciplinary action instead of dismissal.”
This comes after several calls for the GES to reconsider the harsh decision capable of destroying the future of the girls.
The minority in Parliament on Thursday appealed to President Akufo-Addo to intervene and pardon the victims since anything short of that could truncate their educational dreams.
In a statement signed by the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe in reaction to the development urged the GES to review its decision and to “proffer an alternative but corrective punishment” to the eight students for their misconduct.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) dismissed the eight female students of the Chiana SHS in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region after they were captured in a viral video insulting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
GES in a dismissal letter dated November 29, 2022, signed by the Director General of the GES, Dr Eric Nkansah, and handed to guardians of the affected students described their conduct as very undesirable, and contrary to the acceptable standards of conduct generally required of any student in Ghana’s educational system.
The dismissal of the students comes on the heels of an investigation set into the case by authorities last year.
Prior to the dismissal, the students had been on suspension for their misconduct.
