A final year student of Jachie Pramso in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti region was given several lashes by the headmaster for giving her jacket to a male colleague who had been penalized.
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Mary Amoako, a 19-year-old and General Arts student was given several lashes by the headmaster, who was angry with her for being kind to give her jacket to one male student who came to class without wearing a uniform.
According to Mary, the headmaster asked the boy to remove his shirt and go half-naked to the dormitory and wear a uniform before he comes back to the classroom.
She said, she later gave her jacket to the said boy to wear after the headmaster has ceased the boy’s shirt and left.
The headmaster, according to the girls, later saw the boy going to the dormitory while wearing a jacket, and when he found out that, it was the lady who gave the jacket to the boy, he gave her several lashes at her back resulting to serious bruises.
Mary, the assaulted final year student, told the host of Akoma FM‘s current affairs and political show GhanAkoma on Tuesday, September 7 that she did not see any justification for the headmaster’s action.
“Now I can’t even concentrate and learn because I’ve been traumatized. I have not been able to go to campus since the incident happened and I’m scared it might affect me,” she told Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin.
GES Verdict on Headmaster of Jachie Pramso SHS
The Ghana Education Service (GES) responded to the incident with an official statement on their Facebook page.
“Mr. Francis Donkor ,Headmaster of Jachie Pramso SHS has been interdicted effective 7th September 2021 pending investigations into the alleged caning of a student.
He has been directed to handover Administration and Management of the school to the Ashanti Regional Director of Education.”
