The Ghana Education Service (GES) has suspended the Headmaster of Ghana Senior High School in Tamale, Mr. Douglas Mahama and the Senior Housemaster of the school, Mr. Sayibu Fuseini, with immediate effect.
The two have been asked to step aside for the GES Northern Regional Directorate to investigate an allegation that toilet cubicles have been turned dormitories to housed students in the school.
THE CUSTODIAN has watched a video which has since gone viral on social media which showed some students of the Ghana Senior High School being housed in a structure which appeared as cubicles of WC toilet facility.
Some of the students narrating their ordeal to Journalists in Tamale said, “We just sit at the back here to eat and the flies (from where we ease ourselves) will be disturbing us. Sometimes when the wind is too much it blows the breeze here and the scent is unbearable.”
“As am standing here, I was sick just last Friday – I was diagnosed with typhoid and malaria,” one of the students lamented his ordeal.
But, the Head of Public Relations of the GES, Madam Cassandra Twum Ampofo, in a statement on Sunday, April 16, 2023, said, “The Headmaster and Senior housemaster have been directed to step aside to allow for further investigations into the matter by the Regional Director of Education and report back in two weeks.”
She noted the development is disturbing and unfortunate especially when available records indicate that out of 1,790 vacancies declared by the school, only 1,467 students have enrolled.
“The school is expected to have excess capacity to even house extra 300 students. It is thus, unacceptable to have students sleep in such a place” she lamented.
Madam Cassandra has however assured parents and all stakeholders that the Ghana Education Service will continue to ensure students entrusted in the care of school authorities are well taken care off and operate in safe school environment.
