Justice Abdulai, a private legal practitioner, has said the Ghana Education Service’s decision to sack the 8 Chiana SHS girls is unconstitutional.
According to the lawyer, the action is “beyond discrimination and so unacceptable.”
Speaking on TV3’s News 360 Thursday, January 12, 2023, Justice Abdulai indicated the punishment was taken to please the presidency.
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“The GES was simply acting just to please the Office of the President and for me that’s wrongful. It is so unacceptable. It is beyond discrimination and it’s actually unconstitutional,” he was emphatic.
He added victims of the dismissal can exercise their rights by seeking redress in the law courts to get the decision reversed.
“They can easily exercise their human rights at the appropriate court and get this whole thing set aside,” he advised.
Some 8 female students of the Chiana SHS were sacked by the GES for insulting the President in a video that went viral on social media.
The words used by the students on the President were unprintable, which led to their dismissal after a committee probed the actions of the young ladies.
There have been varying reactions from Civil Society Organisations, especially those in the education field and others following the decision.
The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) for instance says the decision is in the right direction as long as it goes with the code of conducts of the GES.
They say the rate of indiscipline in the schools is gradually wiping away the moral fibre that has always characterized the Ghanaian society.
However, the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) is of the view that the sanctioning is rather punitive istead of being reformative as the GES themselves have been advocating for the past few years.
Meanwhile, whilst a parent of one of the victims says some of the girls might contemplate suicide, OnuaOnline’s interaction with one of the girls revealed she is willing to do anything to be forgiven since they were influenced by social media.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
