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The Ghana Education Service has come under fire from the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) for asking certain Senior High School headteachers to resign after they collected unapproved fees from new students.
CHASS claims that as of Monday morning, the seven headteachers in the Ashanti region in particular had not received the letters requesting their resignation; instead, they were only aware of the letters’ circulation on social media.
The Ashanti regional chairman of CHASS, Zakaria Suleman Yeboah, told Citi News that the aforementioned headmasters had not been consulted on the issue prior to the letters’ release.
“None of them has received any letter to that effect, they heard the news on social media and they are seriously traumatised. As we speak, they are not themselves and I believe that it wasn’t the right thing to be done,” Mr Suleman Yeboah said.
Concerned about the accusations made against the 11 Senior High School headmasters across the nation, CHASS has voiced its concerns.
Nonetheless, the Conference emphasized that it will not support its members’ unlawful fee-charging practices.
After accompanying seven headmasters who have been placed under investigation to a meeting, the national president of CHASS, Rev. Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, spoke exclusively to Citi News at the Ashanti regional education office. He stated that their conversations with the headmasters have shown that while some of the allegations are true, others are false, according to the headmasters.
He went on to say that there is a good deal of unrest, resentment, fear, and panic in different schools as a result of the current circumstances.
As a result, he is pleading with the Ghana Education Service to use mercy rather than justice in warning the headmasters who may be found guilty following an investigation.
In an effort to resolve the matter as soon as possible, Rev. Father Owusu Sekyere also urged the pertinent parties to look into it quickly.
As a result, CHASS has issued stern warnings to headmasters all around the nation to adhere closely to the harmonized prospectus and refrain from collecting unapproved fees.
This will stop similar problems from occurring, according to Rev. Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, national president of CHASS.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
