In the midst of the controversy surrounding the suspension of the headmaster of Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is demanding the immediate reinstatement of the embattled headmaster.

Mr. Douglas Haruna Yakubu and the school’s senior housemaster were directed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to step aside to make way for a thorough investigation following a viral video where some of the students of GHANASCO were seen using washroom cubicles as dormitories.

But GNAT disagrees with the decision of the GES.

According to the General Secretary of GNAT, Thomas Musah, GES breached the rules of engagement regarding the teaching profession, hence the call for the reinstatement of the headmaster. He further added that authorities rushed to interdict the staff hence exposing them to public ridicule.

“Why should you in a rush go and issue a statement interdicting the person, putting the person in the public for ridicule? Do you know you have humiliated the head? You have broken his confidence and that, you don’t handle professionals like that. The matter should have been investigated. GES should do the needful by reinstating the man and let’s move forward, he came to meet the matter he didn’t create it,” he said.

He further blamed the alleged situation on the delay in the release of capitation grant by the government for over two years for the effective running of schools in the country.

Mr. Thomas Musah who was speaking in interview with Accra-based Citi News said “capitation grant has not been paid for over two years now, and the government’s interventions for SHSs have been in arrears for over 3 years. What are we talking about,” the General Secretary of GNAT stated.

GHANASCO head Douglas Haruna Yakubu said the story was staged to tarnish the image of the school but Prince Kwame Tamakloe, the journalist behind the story insists the story was not staged.