A level 400 Agriculture Science Student of Mampong Campus of the University of Education Winneba, and former TIEN Secretary, Oscar Komla Bedzra has said the situation at the Tempane Senior High School in Upper East Region has exposed the incompetence of the Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempreh.
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HUNGER STRIKE BY STUDENTS OF TEMPANE .S.H.S SHOULD INFORM DR. MATHEW OPOKU PREMPEH OF HIS UNMEASURABLE INCOMPETENCY. HE DOES NOT EVEN DESERVE A PENNY AS A MINSTER ….!!!
I write to state my displeasure and dissatisfaction as a student activist, relative to the present developments in our education sector which mostly has to do with the woes of the final implementors (classroom teachers and headmasters) of the Free Senior High School Policy.
Some few months in retrospect, the much-bragged-about Free Senior High School policy came under serious problems which ought to be aired for other SENSIBLE persons and groups such as the NGOs, and the minority as well as the citizenry in the Ghanian Society to help eliminate such problems but for the immeasurably incompetent nature of the Education Minister, headmasters and mistresses recognised by our education system as the managers of these schools were forced not to speak out concerning their plights.
Today as I air my concerns , the Headmaster of Tempane Senior High School has been assumed an enemy because he allowed a reputable and a committed citizen like Joshua Hamidu Akamba whom he myopically perceives as his political opponent to air problems affecting the school, through which this committed servant and headmaster of our education sector has become a victim of circumstance till date .
We were all in this country when this headmaster in question was long ago asked to step aside for further investigations into the mater, a move obviously identified by fellow Ghanaians to have been backed by no other person but the minster I call the immeasurably incompetent sector minister. This move unfortunately for my brothers and sisters, led to a hunger strike as I speak because the ‘eat-and-sleep minister’ has for that since, not furnished my colleague students of the school with the blunders of the headmaster. My singular question here is, why did he not call his myopically perceived political opponent for investigations but rather the headmaster ?.
We need to be very serious in this country as I always continue to tell the non-serious NPP that leadership is not a joke as Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh and his cohorts in government have assumed. The education minister indeed doesn’t deserve a penny from Ghana’s coffers as a minster because nothing shows he is working for the good of this policy as enshrined in article 25(1)b of the 1992 constitution of the land.
I wish to call on the Parliamentary Select committee on Education probe and treat as urgency, this matter of concern to ensure justice for the embattled headmaster and these innocent children on hunger strike due to the incompetent being of the sector minister, Dr.Mathew Opoku Prempeh.
I also want to use this opportunity to convey a strong signal to the sector minister to be ‘very circumspect and sensitive’ with the way and manner in which he engages the one I always and without apology refers to as the impotent and toothless of all , Henry Nana Boakye(Nana B) and other bunch of NPP activists to incite students against school authorities and other educational workers in this country , leading to loss of properties worth millions of Ghana cedis which I’m not ready to state in this piece .
I would shortly end here with a humble appeal to my college students across the length and breadth of mother to remain courageous and demand what is due them in order to make their educational plights bearable.
LONG LIVE TEACHERS,
LONG LIVE STUDENTS,
LONG LIVE MOTHER GHANA.
OSCAR KOMLA BEZERRA ,
IMMEDIATE PAST TEIN-NDC SECRETARY,
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION WINNEBA-MAMPONG
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