Finally the court has given its verdict in the Great Lamptey Mills School case and we do not have any quarrel with the bench especially since the judgment was based on the evidence before it. History is however replete with cases which have had to be re-opened in the light of fresh evidence that were not available earlier.
Now that we are out of contempt�s way, the case having left the court�s premises, we would like to discuss this very critical subject with a view to finding a remedy to the recurring incidence of adult delinquency in our society.
Our society space in the past few years have been dominated with a rising incidence of indiscipline on the part person entrusted with the task of moulding our children-teachers and parents. Indeed there have been instances when fathers breached our social values by indulging in abominable vices such as having carnal knowledge of their children and even impregnating them, acting therefore in the manner of beasts. The case we are dealing with should be the concern of all Ghanaians because it is an infringement of our social values. It is not our wish to jump the gun by faulting the conduct of the man at the centre of the matter being considered, Mr. Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills.
Suffice it to state however that the subject under review caused so much anguish to Ghanaians when news about the abomination made the headlines.
Parents and stakeholders in the education of our children and that means the whole country became apprehensive about the safety of these future leaders at the hands of persons whose character we cannot vouch for.
The Lamptey Mills story is critical and it is for this reason that we associate ourselves with the disclosure by the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ms. Oye Lithur and others that they intend to have the matter investigated further. The proprietor has made a number of appearances on TV on issues of morals and so when the story broke, most Ghanaians were taken aback learning rather rudely that the man had impregnated a school girl and made a promise to build her a house.
There are scores of stories about anomalies in the school and these we think must be investigated thoroughly.
The neighborhood in which the school operates would offer important information for the team which is going to undertake the investigations.
Mr. Tee is well known in the Zongo area of Accra since his school is located in the neighborhood and we call on those who would be bestowed with the task of investigating the matter not to over-look the place. The school is considered an important face of education in Accra and so if anomalous developments have taken place there and these are verifiable, the licence or authority backing its existence might have to be look into.
It is a fact that the man impregnated one of the children put in his trust and that for us is a very serious matter, the man�s promise of putting up a structure for the girl-mother notwithstanding. Something went wrong and it is our position that the man has lost the moral right to bring up children as a school proprietor.
We are solidly behind the stakeholders and would keep our eyes and ears open as the days elapse because we can entrust our kids in the care of people who cannot control their zips.
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