The Ghana Education Service (GES) has placed the headmistress of O’Reilly Senior High School and Ghana Senior High School under interdict for selling goods to students without authorization.
On December 6th and 7th, 2023, the headmistresses of the Eastern Region and Greater Accra received letters from their respective Regional Education Offices.
“It has come to the notice of Management, the Collection of Unauthorized Monies at O’Reilly Senior High School as part of the admission process. Based on the above and as the Code of Conduct stipulates, you are to step aside for an investigation to be conducted,” the headmistress of O’Reilly SHS, Nadia Lartechoe Annan, received the letter.
She is to turn over all school property to Ledzokuku, the Municipal Director of Education, who will take charge of supervision in her absence.
In a different case, Patience Naki Mensah, the headmistress of Ghana Senior High School, was also asked to step down with effect from December 7, 2023.
“It has come to the notice of Management of Ghana Education Service that there is an unauthorized sale of the following items to the Form One students reporting to school: GH¢200, GH¢250. You are, therefore, being asked to step aside with effect from December 7th, 2023, for further investigation to be conducted into the allegation,” the letter stated.
Allegations that Form One students were sold ceremonial fabric, tracksuits, and other items without permission have prompted the GES to take action. The fate of the impacted headteachers will be decided by inquiries into the claims.
The GES’s letters of interdiction are listed below:
