Eight dismissed students from Chiana Senior High School in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region have been readmitted after President Nana Akufo-Addo intervened.
The Ministry of Education made this information public in a statement.
The Ghana Education Service has been urged to take alternative disciplinary measures by the Ministry of Education.
Eight female students were expelled for making disparaging remarks about President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a widely circulated video.
The dismissal of the eight Chiana Senior High School students was deemed unjust by non-governmental organization, Child Rights International (CRI).
Although the organization strongly condemned the students’ behavior, it claimed that the dismissal by the Ghana Education Service (GES) was not only harsh, but also detrimental to the students’ education.
In a statement, Child Rights also demanded that the GES make public the investigation that led to the decision.
“CRI calls on GES to publish the findings of their investigations to the general public as stated in their earlier press release, highlighting the concerns of due processes followed in arriving at the conclusion of dismissal vis-à-vis the best interest of the child as enshrined in the Children’s Act (560) 1998.”
