The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Tempane, Paul Azumah Abugri, says first year students of the Tempane SHS will report to school on Monday, 17th December 2018.
Tempane Senior High School in the Upper East Region, was shut down after form three students of the school allegedly prevented the juniors from eating as well as writing their exams in solidarity with their suspended headmaster.
Ghana Education Service (GES), suspended the headmaster of Tempane Senior High School, Ndegu Amolale, after allowing the National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba to campaign against Free SHS in the school.
Joshua Akamba, in a video that went viral on social media asked some students of Tempane Senior High School to hoot at President Nana Addo over bedbugs’ plague in their dormitories. In the video, the NDC kingpin attributed the infestation of bedbugs in the school to overcrowding in the Senior High schools following government’s implementation of its free SHS programme.
Following the suspension of the headmaster, form three students of the school who were ill-fated over the headmaster’s protracted absence, on Tuesday prevented their juniors from eating a well as taking part in the exams which according to them was to express their displeasure in GES for suspending their headmaster.
Speaking to Kaakyire Ofori Ayim on Atinka AM Drive, DCE for Tempane, Paul Azumah Abugri, refuted media reports suggesting that the students embarked on a hunger strike. He noted that the form three students of the school went violent and in the process stopped the form one’s and two’s from eating as well as taking part in the ongoing exams.
“When we got the information this morning from the Assistant Headmaster that some students had refused to eat, we rushed there. On arrival, we realized that when we make them stay overnight, they might take advantage of the situation and destroy properties so stakeholders came together and we decided that in order to avoid any destruction of properties in the night, they should go home.”
According to him, the regional minister, regional director of education, BNI as well as other stakeholders in the region came to a consensus to close the school down following the events on the school premises.
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