Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the suspension of the headmaster of the Tempane Senior High School (SHS) in the Upper East region, Dominic Ndegu Amolale, shows how intolerant the NPP government is.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) suspended the headmaster last Saturday after a video went viral of an aspiring National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joshua Akamba, allegedly inciting some students of the Tempane SHS against President Akufo-Addo over the challenges facing the implementation of the free Senior High School programme.
Ndegu Amolale was instructed in a letter to handover the management of the school to the Upper East Regional GES Director to allow for investigations into the incident.
But addressing a large crowd of delegates and supporters of the main opposition National Democratic Congress at the Wa campus of the university for development studies(UDS), former president Mahama described as unwarranted, the circumstances that led to the suspension of the headmaster.
Mr. Akamba allegedly incited some students against government’s free SHS policy
He indicated that the governing NPP lacks the moral right to react in this manner because they openly campaigned in various Senior High schools in the run up to the 2016 general elections that brought them to power.
“Who went into schools more than somebody? We were in government and there was somebody he was always in the schools and playing politics and yet we never sacked any headmaster, we never sacked any teacher because you have gone into a school. Then one of our aspirants for a certain position goes to a school and the students show him how bedbugs have chewed them and had a discourse with them. Then you suspend the headmaster and you say he should handover and you are investigating him. Investigating him for what?”
“The schools have children who are 18 years and above and they vote. And in our time in office we allowed the opposition to go into the schools. That is the problem with NPP, they are highly intolerant. Things that we took for granted they won’t take for granted. And so the poor headmaster has been suspended. And I hope the investigation exonerates him. And the investigators should know that when they were in opposition they did the same thing,” he added.
Mahama used the opportunity to urge Ghanaians to bring back the NDC to alleviate the country from its current economic hardship.
Although GES rules clearly prohibits political activities in schools except at the tertiary level, both parties often flout the rules.
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Source: Citi News
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Eiii people of ghana !!!
There is on one in the party with the knack for coming up with good policies. However, if you were to ask them to come up with ideas on how to du%pe the nations, you would have heard judge*ment de$bt and the rest. Its is good Dr Afa*ri Gy*an , Charlotte Osei and Amadu Sule are gone. We shall see how they will come back to power!!
The NPP will definitely be booted out in 2020. They are too INTOLERANT AND NONSENSICAL. Ghana is for all Ghanaians. We don't want any DICTATORS. THEY WOULD NOT HAVE COME TO POWER IF GHANA WAS A DICTATORSHIP. MTCHEW
And this dude was a president? Boi
This is what we Ghaianans term as humility. This man is using all these to deceive some Ghanaians to vote for him. He should be mindful that we dont use tolerance to govern a country. Ghana needs someone who can take bold decisions not someone who tolerate corruption and insults. Give us a break John Mahama.
This bed bug in schools has been with us for ages not the free shs. My ward completed Mampong presec two years ago and she always come home with bites and was advice to buy a lotion use to prevent the bites. Why is NDC doing everything possible to discredit the free SHS? Because you could not implement simply one term premium NHIS, you think NPP cannot implement the free SHS?
The man is just a fôool!!!
Mr Mahama, you are really not a leader. If you did not act when somebody falls foul of the law and you claim it is because you are tolerant then you cannot lead. No wonder you couldn't stop the galamsey menace and I know you will attribute it to your tolerance. I hate tolerance leaders, it leads to lawlessness in a society
Can someone (Bawa Motgari) tell John Ford Mahama that it is his Us3l3ss tolerance level that has brought the country where it is today!!! His fanatic and inconsistent behavior and corrupt behavior brought this country on its knees. He tolerated C0rrupt10n, Thuggery, and Money Laundering in his own government by children like Okudzeto Ablakwa, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah..etc. Mahama should give Ghanaians a f0k1n break!!! He won’t be president again. His time has passed...and he is a L00s3r!! #GhostWriter
Mr Mahama, are you contesting against Nana Addo for the 2020 general election or you are first contesting for NDC flag bearership race? Pls concentrate on how to win the NDC presidential Aspirant race after which you can campaign against the President nana Addo. This what you are doing is not sending any convincing message to the NDC delegates for them to consider and vote for you. This is my piece of Advice