GES to meet Abuakwa Municipal Security Council over the shut down of Akyem Anyinasin Methodist JHS
The closure of Akyem Anyinasin Methodist Junior High School has triggered a meeting between the Ghana Education Service in Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region and the Municipal Security Council scheduled for today.
Abena Gyamerah, the Municipal Director of Education narrates that a group of community members on Wednesday, July 27, attacked a school teacher for punishing some students. The incident led to the subsequent shutting down of the School.
She said the teacher in question was left traumatised.
“The way they threatened the teachers and the invigilators, we can’t let it go like that. It was the boys that threatened the teacher with cutlasses and sticks and other sharp objects,” she noted.
On the way forward, she said, “we’ll meet the community and have a discussion before the school reopens. We’ll go with the MCE to meet the communities”.
According to earlier reports, a gang from the community forced a male teacher to kneel and apologise for punishing the students.
The teacher reportedly disciplined some students for misconduct on July 24, 2022.
The students are believed to have complained to a gang in the community, who then attacked the teacher in the evening while he was on his way home.
Other teachers in the school were also allegedly threatened following the incident.
