Tempane Senior High School in the Tempane district of the Upper East Region, has been closed down following a hunger strike by some students demanding the reinstatement of the school’s suspended headmaster, Dominic Ndegu Amolale.
The headmaster was suspended by the Ghana Education Service for allegedly allowing the National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba to campaign against government’s flagship programme, the Free SHS. Some students who were unhappy with the decision, embarked on a hunger strike yesterday to protest the prolonged suspension.
In an interview with Radio Ghana’s Samuel Ayammah the DCE for Tempane, Paul Azumah Abugri, said in a bid to avoid destruction of properties, the students have been instructed to leave the school’s premises as soon as possible. According to him, some final year students refused to eat and write their end of term examination and eventually influenced their juniors to follow suit. Mr Abugri evisaged that their continuous stay could create trouble hence the need to send them home.
Joshua Akamba the current National Organizer of the NDC in a video that went viral on social media told some students of Tempane Senior High School to hoot at President Nana Addo over the infestation of bedbugs in their dormitories. Mr Akamba attributed the bedbug problem to congestion occasioned by the free SHS programme.
The headmaster had to be suspended because GES rules clearly do not allow any kind of politics in basic and secondary schools. Some critics have called on the government to reinstate the suspended headmaster immediately.
