A senior communicator for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Adomako Baafi, has blamed the Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi as well as a former National Organizer of the party, Joshua Akamba of being the brain behind the disgraceful statements some eight (8) Chiana senior high school students made which got them sacked from school.
Speaking on Wontumi TV, the NPP erudite communicator, if investigations are intensified, Sammy Gyamfi and Joshua Akamba would be caught in the web of naughtiness that influenced the 8 female students to insult President Akufo-Addo.
President Akufo-Addo has called on the Ministry of Education to lessen the punishment meted out to the 8 Chiana SHS students who were caught on video hurling unwarranted vitriolic at him.
In a release issued on Friday, January 13, 2022, the Ministry of Education said the president intervened in the matter after his attention was drawn to the dismissal of the eight final-year students of Chiana Senior High School.
The release read: The President of the Republic, H. E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has intervened in the above subject matter after it was drawn to his attention.
Consequently, the Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has directed the Ghana Education Service to consider an alternative disciplinary action instead of dismissal.
Prior to this, the GES said its investigation into the incident confirmed that the students used unsavoury language against the President in a viral video.
It thus described the actions of the students as “very undesirable, and contrary to the acceptable standards of the conduct generally required of any student in Ghana’s educational system”.
Prior to the dismissal of the students, the GES had earlier apologised to the President over the said conduct.