The Headmaster of the Nkwanta Senior High School (SHS), Paul Boafo Nyarko has alleged that the wives of teaching staff, as well as some female teachers, were raped last Tuesday by students during riots at the school.
According to him, as a result, the teachers are not psychologically ready to return to the classrooms on Monday and will need a one-month period to recover from the trauma.
He said: "Going as far as raping teacher's wives, raping female teachers on campus, so they (the teachers) have gone through a lot of psychological trauma.
"So before even they can go and stand in front of the students and teach them, they need a psychotherapist to come and take them through all those things so that they will be able to re-psyche themselves before they can go back to the classrooms".
A Business Accounting teacher of the school, Felix Owusu Gyimah also explained that the teachers have petitioned against the re-opening date because of threats against their safety by the students.
"We can't go and stand in front of them and be teaching, whiles a student will be threatening to kill the teacher just because he's ensuring that the right thing is done...," Mr Gyimah said in an interview with Joy FM.
"Notwithstanding that fact, you just have a look at the properties that were destroyed, both government and personal properties that have been destroyed.
"At least there should be a solution or there should be an issue at stake that once this issue has happened, the elders will put things in place in order to ensure an amicable solution so that when we teach them we will be able to teach them with all our hearts and minds".
Background
The Nkwanta SHS located in the Volta Region was closed down temporarily following the destruction of school properties by some rampaging students of the school on Monday, October 29, 2018.
The students went on the rampage after some teachers seized their mobile phones during a roll call in some of the dormitories.
Among the properties vandalised are three staff bungalows, 26 motorbikes belonging to teachers, five vehicles, including a pick-up, two school buses, a tipper truck and a car belonging to the Nkwanta Divisional Police Commander.
The rampaging students also destroyed the school’s water systems and ECG meters, leading to a power outage and the cessation of water supply to the school.
In addition, whiteboards in the classrooms were destroyed by the students.
Source: Daily Graphic
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and they are going to let those stup1?d students go free?. well this is where i have a problem with this Free SHS thing. not everyone should be in school. some of thse students are destined to be street boys and no amount of free shs will change that destiny. they will just cause all kinds of mess and leave. if i have the opportunity to give the president one advice, i will first thank him for this great policy but will tell him that not everyone needs to go to school. some ple are just destined to be 1d10ts.
Is this new true????? No. i can't believe this until further evidence come out. the government must look into this with all seriousness.
I always believe students must be instigated by some members of staff to be able to commit such an unpardonable crime. School authorities must look out for teachers who compromise on discipline by flirting with female students, accept tips from students and all manner of things. Such members of staff should be dismissed and prosecuted immediately. These are the people who are against discipline. For the students, all those who committed ***barred word*** crime must be identified and prosecuted by giving them the severest punishment.
If this is true, how can the teachers keep teaching in that school. How did it happen? this the students go to the teachers bungalow to perform such heinous crimes. Cant they students be identified? this is too bad.
instead of sympathizing with the teachers u are bashing dem all because Free SHS. So cos of Free SHS the lives of our teachers and wives be put to danger. Why does this gov't not respect teachers at all.
What kind of ***barred word*** and st*pid is this, firstly are their wives in the school at the time of the event, and how many rounds their wives told them that the students went with them as well as the female teachers? if it is true then they should leave their wives alone to think of themselves.
how can this be possible? have teachers lost so much respect in Ghana to the extent of student raping their female teachers? please if you know such things are not true, don't publish them because it is tarnishing the reputation of Ghana's educational service and also a disgrace to the country. People are reading this all over the world. There are certain things that are not supposed to be published.
This is upsetting. This headmaster is using the incident at the school as an excuse to frustrate the free SHS and the double track system. That is all he is trying to do. That the students have raped the wives of teachers is a ruse. He even alleges that the students have raped some female teachers. I hope that the ministry of education will take the allegations seriously and send investigators to the school to investigate those claims. The school should be prepared to produce the supposed victims of these rape attacks and proper investigation conducted to get to the bottom of this issue. If it turns out as I strongly suspect, that this headmaster is lying, he should be made to face the music. Of course if indeed it is established that some students did such outrageously criminal act at this stage, then such students should be smoked out and punished. We cannot let any one person or persons hold an entire state system to ransom just to satisfy their political or parochial interest.